 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 resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor...  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 117by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail...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 : And many a holy... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...description of this feeling, as heing particularly applicahle to this character, " Yet e'en these hones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked. Implores the passing trihute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt hy the unlettered muse,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...stray — Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. d foe To you, whom I could pity thus forlorn, Though...seek, And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That unlettcr'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...with the world they inhabited, have all totally disappeared ! 6. G. ON COUNTRY CHURCHYARD EPITAPHS. "Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of Fame and Elegy supply: And many ft holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GRAY'S ELEGY. IT is an incident... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet c'en these bones from insuit to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck' d Implores the passing tribute x>fa sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and 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 : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
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