 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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 sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the... | |
 | John GRISCOM - Europe - 1823 - 532 pages
...interrogation, Can storied um, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? To the " cold ear" of departed heroes and philosophers, this flattery is utterly lost. It is only,... | |
 | Theology - 1822 - 500 pages
...storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath : Can honor's voice awake the silent dust ; Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death - " I asked myself too, how atheistical principles would support either the sufferer or the mourner... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...of excessive grief, such as he now felt, was, therefore, useless and unavailing " For could honour's voice provoke the silent dust ? Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of death ?" No ! Sir Walter knew that it were impossible ! and that circumstanced as he now was, the present... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 pages
..."CAN storied urn, or animated bust, " Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath; " Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, " Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death?" No—this sad pile MACKINNON'S worth records; • Here grateful nations heap their last rewards! Empty... | |
 | John Griscom - Europe - 1824 - 370 pages
...interrogation, 'Can ftoriod urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath 1 Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death '? To the " cold ear" of departed heroes and philosophers, this flattery is utterly lost. It is only,... | |
 | Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...death : Can story'd urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? As the sense of the word or, that is, whether it means conjunction or disjunction, is not always... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Bark to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust ? Or Flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, I lack to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid It Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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 sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
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Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death... 
