 Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold...  November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg - Page 299by Kent Gramm - 2001 - 344 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault . The pealing anthem swells the...breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...impute the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb iu>' trophies raise, Where thro' the long•drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, > • : ," I Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...the Monthly Visitor. THOUGHTS ON MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? THE Elegy of Gray (from which I have here quoted a verse,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...pe.al, means properly a succession of loud founds. " Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the. silent dust ? : . Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of Death ) } Storiedt — embossed with figures, representing some... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...their tomb.no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthern swells the note of praise. , Can storied urn or animated...breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neg'ected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomh no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated hust Back to its mansion call the nesting hreath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead...Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...point 4es1totrit>eaia'x 'm*gttifiqtie9 Attester de lews ttoms le né Where, thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note...dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of death? Perhaps-in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...these the fault, ' If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the Ions-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated hust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...these impute the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story 'd urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke... | |
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