 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
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenoxir 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 the' unletter'd Muse, * The... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame! Yet, even 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 the unletter'd Muse, The... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...covers it. 'Tis the last tribute v/hich the humblest pay to the most humble. " Yet e'en those bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd; Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." 1 The stranger who in days to come, shall visit our shore,... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...the cool, sequestered vale of life i They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their yefers, spelled by the unlettered... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...alas! there are but too many originals. THE VILLAGE CHURCHYARD. " Yet e'en these bones from intuit to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh. With uncouth rhymes and shapele»« sculpture declc'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigb. " Their names, their yearn,... | |
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