 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note...breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1799 - 372 pages
...apply the oftenquoted, but heart-searching inquiry :— " Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath * Can honour's...dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ?' For if these things cannot prolong, for a moment, the life that now is, they will have no influence... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault . The pealing anthem swells the...breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...pe.al, means properly a succession of loud founds. " Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice...: . Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of Death ) } Storiedt — embossed with figures, representing some history of the deceased, as the Barberini... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...their tomb.no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthern swells the note of praise. , Can storied urn or animated...sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neg'ected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note...breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...to these the fault , If Mem'ry o'er their tombs no trophies raise , Where thro' the long-drawn isle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note...breath ; Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...to these the fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomh no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated hust Back to its mansion call the nesting hreath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...impute to These the fault, If Mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn isle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note...breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...point 4es1totrit>eaia'x 'm*gttifiqtie9 Attester de lews ttoms le né Where, thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note...breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of death? Perhaps-in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
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Await, alike, the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud ! impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells... 
