| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...shapeless sculpture, deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews-r That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,... | |
| 1828 - 608 pages
...declc'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigb. " Their names, their yearn, spelt by lh' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply. And many a holy text around she strews, To teach the rustic moral M to die.** Our. THROUGH whatever medium we regard death, never does it more... | |
| 1828 - 614 pages
...hopes of those who have departed : — ." Their names, their years, spelt by the uulctter'd mu«e, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, Which teach the rustic moralist to die." Another, and not a minor argument, is deducible from the fact,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 5 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elejy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 6 For... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless 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 a holy text around she strews, That... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 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 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... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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 a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, most astonishing scenes I ev^r beheld. Add to this the étrange views ma the unlettered Mufle, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews,... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd » The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the... | |
| Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh. With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, 75 Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ; Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd ' muse, shed, The place of fame and e!egy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic... | |
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