 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...decked Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, 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. 5 For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned ; — Left the... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...passage the confusion of numbers, which escaped the eye of Gray in one of the stanzas of the Elegy: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. " Teaches," of course, should be inserted; as Locke ought to have written: — " How much the constitution... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 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 teach... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...bones, form 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, spell'd by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 336 pages
...last verse of this stanza. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fiune and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. It was maintained to bo correct when estimated by significance, but inaccurate, if measured by the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...sculpture decked, Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, Their names, their years, spelled by the unlettered MUM, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, 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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh. 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... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked. 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 teach... | |
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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... 
