 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...break through to steal.— </! F. Clarke. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion cull the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the...dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of Death ? — Gray, Where is the true man's fatherland ? Is it where he by chance is born ? Doth not the yearning... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath T Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery...Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - English language - 1848 - 56 pages
...praise. Can storied urn, and animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust ? Or flattery soothe...Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Kich with the spoils... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe...Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe...of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 5 Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's...of death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid 10 Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 372 pages
...vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 11. Can storied urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honor's...dust, Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death ? 12. Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands... | |
 | Thomas O'Donoghue - 1850 - 204 pages
...praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ; Can honoured voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe...ear of death. Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empires might have swayed, Or waked... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied...Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living»lyre'. •f But Knowledge, to their eyes, her ample page, Rich with the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...note of praise.' Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath 1 Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery...Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to eestasy the living lyre : But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils... | |
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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 the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the... 
