 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being ere resign'd, Left the. warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling' ring look behind... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'U, Implores the passing tribute ot a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...sculpturedecked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 80 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...bones from insult to protect Some frail Memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ?... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the' unletter'd Muse, * The place of fame and elegy supply...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en... | |
 | John Henry Druery - Great Yarmouth (England) - 1826 - 476 pages
...humble mounds and pious inscriptions, beneath which the " rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " " Their name their years spelt by th' unletter'd muse,...she strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die. " The patronage of Somerleyton rectory is rested in the Rev. George Anguish, the incumbent to which... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1832 - 442 pages
...pure and holy faith be thus evil spoken of! Rapturous deaths we consider unnatural to humanity, — For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? Like the delirious visions which are the effects of opium, they are the consequence of the... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd ; Implores the passing tribute of...resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day. Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ?... | |
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Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
