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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. "
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ... - Page 85
by Thomas Gray - 1799 - 186 pages
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Ellmer Castle: A Roman Catholic Story of the Nineteenth Century

1833 - 244 pages
...illustrations of the poet's fancy ; may we not in every country see — ' Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, ' The place of fame and elegy supply...strews, ' That teach the rustic moralist to die.' ' The latter part of your quotation,' said Neville, ' is not so frequent ; in general the inscriptions...
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An Improved Grammar of the English Language

Noah Webster - English language - 1833 - 202 pages
...from Gray's Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
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Female Biography: Containing Notices of Distinguished Women, in Different ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Queens - 1834 - 524 pages
...told us this truth in lines of transcendant beauty and force, which find a response in every breast : 'For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
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A History of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the West of ...

Sir Jerom Murch - Baptists - 1835 - 612 pages
...and anxiety for the improvement of the living. v " Their names, their years spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...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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The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...Implores the 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...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — ,'g . '"•eft...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 420 pages
...and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 6 For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precints of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? 7 On some fond breast the...
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The County [afterw.] Country miscellany, ed. by H. Burgess

Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
..."the rude forefathers of the hamlet" he proceeds; "Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...decked Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name.their years.spelt by the unlettered most, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy...forgetfulness a prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ?...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...nigh, Their names, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply 5 And many a holy text around she strews—• That...Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing—lingering look behind...
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Memoirs of an Aristocrat, and Reminiscences of the Emperor Napoleon

George Home - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1837 - 364 pages
...Westminster Abbey, under the monument erected to his memory by his grateful country." CHAPTER VI. " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cost one longing lingering look behind....
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