 | Book - 1841 - 164 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 tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...2Along 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...nigh', | With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture deckW', | Implores the passing tribute of a sigh,. | Their names', their years', spell'd by theunletter'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tcnour 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 the unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | Richard Harris Barham - 1841 - 926 pages
...OF LIFE. BY DALTON INGOLD8BY. GAME THE SECOND. GAME THE SECOND. THE INHERITANCE. CHAPTER I. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. GRAY. A TICARAOE AND A VICAR OF THE OLDEN... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 234 pages
...that meet their eyes are often of an arresting kind. In whatever part of the cemetery they may be, " Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." And, if they are led within the venerated pile, to... | |
 | William Jones - 1842 - 294 pages
...and to whom a little plain clothing, and the coarsest fare, gave full content:— ' Yet e'en their 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 the' unletter'd... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...the Muse's flame. 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,... | |
 | Henry Hudson Holly - Architecture - 1993 - 268 pages
...trees, and among moss-covered gravestones, " the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." " Yet c'eti these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." Hard by stands the church. The ivy has crept quite up its rugged walls, and, undisturbed and undirected,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...leamed to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail...sculpture decked, 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... | |
 | Wendell Mayo - Fiction - 1996 - 132 pages
...laugh. You see? There will be plenty of stories, plenty from now on, plenty to tell the priest. Soledad 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. — Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-... | |
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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. 
