 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...with the solemnity of these homes of the departed. " Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, " The place of Fame and Elegy supply ; " And...strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die." MIDDLETON BATH. 27 We do not indeed expect to find the poetry of a Gray on these simple tablets of... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1824 - 420 pages
...with the solemnity of these homes of the departed. " Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, " The place of Fame and Elegy supply ; " And...holy text around she strews, " That teach the rustic moralUt to die." We do not indeed expect to find the poetry of a Gray on these simple tablets" of fond... | |
 | George Dyer - 1824 - 702 pages
...turn, not to be overlooked as a trifler, or as a labourer about nothing ; — operose nihit agenda : " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing;,...being e'er resign'd ? Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind > " On some fond breast the parting soul... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...with the world they inhabited, have all totally disappeared ! 6. G. ON COUNTRY CHURCHYARD EPITAPHS. "Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of Fame and Elegy supply: And many ft holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GRAY'S ELEGY. IT is an incident... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...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...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being ere resign'd, Left the. warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling' ring look behind... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...sculpturedecked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 80 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...The plaee of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teaeh the rustie ith sueh pains, ean trr In eloeution, aetion, preeinets of the eheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod." . We shrink from it; we all do. " Oh! who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, * * • " " This...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, . Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" We had a party calm, tranquil, and as little... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...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...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the' unletter'd Muse, * The place of fame and elegy supply...forgetfulness a prey, -• ? This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind... | |
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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. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er... 
