 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlctter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious bcinsj e'er re>ign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, Their names, their years, spelt by th'unletter'dM use, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...strews, • That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...protect, Somo frail memorial 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' nnletter'd Muse, Tin: place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, \\ ith uncouth rhymesandslxipt'lesssculpiuredeck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletler'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : Ami many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Bibliography - 1812 - 370 pages
...protect •'Some frail memorial 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 muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, AVith uncouth rhymes and 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 ; And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by l.li' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt bj th' unklterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...friend to learned ease, Content with science, in the vale of peace." Pope's Ep. to Fenton, 6. W. £ And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...unadorned memorials of the dead : — Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, The plaoc of Fame and Elegy supply ; And many a holy text around...she strews, That teach THE RUSTIC MORALIST to die ! — This church-yard contained the ashes of the poet Gray (the author of these exquisite lines) ,... | |
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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. 
