 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...deck'd, Implores the passing trihute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt hy th' nnletterM man. The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strewa. That teach tha rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumh Forgetfuiness a prey. This pleasing... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures deckt, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XX. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. XXI. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; Left the warm... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XXI. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. :J.'iiNE\V YOPK AMOK 1>-\OX AND XXII. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, — Left the... | |
 | Joshua Coffin - Indian captivities - 1845 - 468 pages
...elegy, in a country churchyard, in which he says, ' Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletttered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.' There are, in Newbury, several other burial-grounds, both public and private, that have not been noticed,... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...who publicly thanked the conqueror of Hohenlinden for the moderation he had displayed. — Idem. 17. And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. 18. Locke speaks of " the practice of talking Latin with a tutor who speaks it well," — a phoenix... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still3 erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt, 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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...pro'tect,) Some frail memorTal/ still erected nig'h, With uncouth rhy'mes/ and shapeless sculpture de'cked, Implores the passing tr'ibute/ of a sig'h. Their na'me, their yea"rs, (spelt by the unlettered m'use) The place of fa'me/ and eregy suppl'y ; And many a holy te'xt/ around she stre'ws,... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1846 - 472 pages
...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. " Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The pluce of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, To teach the rustic moralist to die." . Yes, to stand by such a grave, to lean upon the stone and weep,... | |
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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... 
