 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod." . We shrink from it; we all do. " Oh! who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, * * • " " This...day, . Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" We had a party calm, tranquil, and as little outwardly disturbed, perhaps, as men could be under... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of faîne and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she...a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, S'ils n'ont pas des destins affronté la menace, Fait tonner au Sénat leur éloquente audace, D'un... | |
 | 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...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day. Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? for thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Sost... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd ; Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,...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... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse. The place of fame and elegy supply, And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their yefers, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,— 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... 
