 | 1829
...picture, to which, alas ! there are but too many originals. THE VILLAGE CHURCHYARD. " Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckM, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. " Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 527 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 rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd ; Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 134 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...nigh, 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 259 pages
...the cool sequestei'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...nigh, 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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822
...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 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 388 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 names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 372 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 th' unletterM muse,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 346 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...nigh, 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,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 822 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...you I seek, And mutual amity, so strait, so close, deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettcr'd Muse,... | |
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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... 
