 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 teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...  The gift book of English poetry - Page 214by English poetry - 1848Full view - About this book
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...endless wishes room; But through the cool sequester'd vale of life Pursue the silent tenour of thy doom. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, [deck'd, Their name, their years, spell'd by the' unletter'd... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray — Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...stray; 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 memorial...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n you, whom I could pity thus forlorn, Though I unpitied....seek, And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That th' unlettcr'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...strife, Their sober wishes never learn' d to stray ; Along the cool, sequester' d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...wishes never learn'd to 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...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... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...strife, Their sober wishes never leanrtl to stray — Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'U, Implores the passing tribute ot a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life 75 They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones...to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, Ver. 73. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.] VARIATION. " The thoughtless world to majesty... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...stray ; 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 Memorial...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... | |
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