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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. "
National Preceptor - Page 159
by Jesse Olney - 1845 - 336 pages
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The American Manual: Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...5JO. Yet ev'n th^se bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh,\Vithuncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the...passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Along the cool', sequestered vale of life', They kept the noiseless tenour of their way'. Yet even these bones', from insult to protect', Some frail...still erected nigh', With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpturet decked', Implores the passing tribute of a sigh'. Their name\ their years', spelled by th*...
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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd mn« The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she...
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A History of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the West of ...

Sir Jerom Murch - Baptists - 1835 - 614 pages
...memories of the dead and anxiety for the improvement of the living. " Their names, their years spelt by the unlettered muse. The place of fame and elegy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." The origin and exact age of the society at Frenchay are involved in uncertainty. My earliest information...
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A Collection, in Prose and Verse, for the Use of Schools

Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...noiseless tenor of their way. .'». •;.• •• .. •. • • MY .••• i»i >• Yet even these bones, from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...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,...
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Memoirs of the life of ... sir James Mackintosh [extr. from ..., Volume 2

sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 pages
...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed, — ' That, e'en his bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Might claim the passing tribute of a sigh.' They began to rail in and to brick over the grave...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place...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...
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The County [afterw.] Country miscellany, ed. by H. Burgess

Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...Having mentioned "the rude forefathers of the hamlet" he proceeds; "Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy...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...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 2

Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 546 pages
...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed, — ' That, e'en his bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt. Might claim the passing trihute of a sigh.' They began to rail in and to brick over the grave...
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...
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