 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...a name. The chisel's slender help to fame, (Which ere our set of friends decay Their frequent steps + Tim marble tombs that rise on high, Whose dead in vaulted arches lie, Whose pillars swell wilh sculptur'd... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...name, (The chisel's slender help to fame, Which, ere our set of friends decay, Their frequent steps may wear away,) A middle race of mortals own, Men,...half ambitious, all unknown. The marble tombs, that rise on high, Whose dead in vaulted arches lie ; Whose pillars swell with sculptured stones, Arms,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...a name, The chisel's slender help to fame, (Which ere our set of friends decay Their frequent steps portably his foot advanc'd, In scorn of their proud arms and warlike tools, Spum'd them to death by rise on high, Whose dead in vaulted arches lie, Whose pillars swell with sculptur'd stones Arms, angels,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...slender help to fame, (Which ere our set of friends decay, Their frequent steps may wear away,) Л middle race of mortals own, Men, half ambitious, all unknown. The marble tombs that rise on high, Whose dead in vaulted arches lie, Whose pillars swell with sculptured stones, Arms, angels,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...a name, The chisel's slender help to fame, (Which ere our set of friends decay Their frequent steps may wear away,) A Middle Race of mortals own, Men,...half ambitious, all unknown. The marble tombs that rise on high, Whose dead in vaulted arches lie, Whose pillars swell with sculptured stones, Urns, angels,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...a name, The chisel's slender help to fame, IWhich ere our set of friends decay Their frequent steps may wear away,) A middle race of mortals own, Men,...half ambitious, all unknown. The marble tombs that rise on high, Whose dead iu vaulted arches lie, A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH. 291 Whose pillars swell with... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...name, The chisel's slender help to fame (Which, ere our set of friends decay, Their frequent steps may wear away) A middle race of mortals own, Men half ambitious, all unknown. The marble tombs that rise on high Whose dead in vaulted arches lie, Whose pillars swell with sculptured stones, Arms, angels,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...name, The chisel's slender help to fame, (Which, ere our set of friends decay, Their frequent steps may wear away,) A middle race of mortals own, Men half ambitious, all unknown. The marble tombs that rise on high, Whose dead in vaulted arches lie, Whose pillars swell with sculptured stones, Arms, angels,... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...a name. The chisel's slender help to fame, (Which ere our set of friends decay Their frequent steps double tapers dance, Like the Sun wading through the misty sky. Then sliding soft, they drop. Confus rise on high, Whose dead in vaulted arches lie, Whose pillars swell with sculptur'd stones Arms, angels,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...a name, The chisel's slender help to fame (Which ere our set of friends decay Their frequent steps may wear away), A middle race of mortals own, Men,...half ambitious, all unknown. The marble tombs that rise on high, Whose dead in vaulted arches lie, Whose pillars swell with sculptured stones, Arms, angels,... | |
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Those graves, with bending osier bound, That nameless heave the crumbled ground, Quick to the glancing thought disclose Where toil and poverty repose. The flat smooth stones that bear a name... 
