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... Works ... - Page 224by Leigh Hunt - 1859Full view - About this book
| 1801 - 452 pages
...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, as a kind of motto) is universally admired... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected...that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of Time did... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...its mansion call the fleeting breath ; Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected...the rod of empire might have sway'd , Or wak'd to ecstacy the Jiving lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page , Rich with the spoils of Time... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with relestial fire; Hands that the rod of nr.-'re might have sway'd, Or wak'd... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this...that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to extasy the Jiving lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ; Can 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 with celestial 6re; Hands that tlie rod of empire might have sway'd. Or wak'd... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this...that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to extasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...mansion call the fleeting breath ? , , Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected...that the rod of empire might have sway'd. Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this...that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...1. 8« Can storied urn or animated bust Bark to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd doaj, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If... | |
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