 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd. Implores the passing trihute of a sigh, Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...differ* from the first copv. Tl following stania wa* excluded with th« other altaratioi.. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th* unlettered Muse,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...learn'd to stray j Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet, ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigb, With uncough rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail...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 muse,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...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 Muse,... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, * In the first manuscript copy of this exquisite poem, the conclusion is different from that which... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...stray , Along the cool seque*ter'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. i-,t ev'ii these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, Vith uneouth rhymes aud shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. O Their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool soquester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, Their name, their years, spelt by th' nnletterM Muse,... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...: Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. XX. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...stray; Along the cool seq«e-.ter'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect. Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, [deck'd, Their name, their years, spelt by the unlctter'd The... | |
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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. 
