 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 teach the rustic moralist...  Village Musings - Page 40by Thomas Lilley - 1837Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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 still...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse, The place... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 frail memorial still...With 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones could pity thus forlorn, Though I unpitied. League...seek, And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettcr'd Muse, The... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...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...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' The... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...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 still...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...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 The place... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...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 still...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'U, Implores the passing tribute ot a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 826 pages
...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed ; " That, ev'n his bones from insult to protect,' Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhiraes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Might claim the passing tribute of a sigh.'' 1063] They began... | |
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