 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...with the solemnity of these homes of the departed. " Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, " The place of Fame and Elegy supply ; " And...strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die." MIDDLETON BATH. 27 We do not indeed expect to find the poetry of a Gray on these simple tablets of... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 402 pages
...sculpture deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years spelt by th' unjetter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...she 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... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 pages
...to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod." . We shrink from it; we all do. " Oh! who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, * * • " " This...day, . Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" We had a party calm, tranquil, and as little outwardly disturbed, perhaps, as men could be under... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...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...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die ; For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being ere resign'd, Left the. warm... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 pages
...warm motion to become A kneaded clod." We shrink from it; we all do. " Oh ! who, to dumb forgetfuluess a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" We had a party calm, tranquil, and as little outwardly disturbed, perhaps, as men could be under... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...sculpturedecked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 80 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...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...she 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... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...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...she 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... | |
 | John Henry Druery - 1826 - 476 pages
...inscriptions, beneath which the " rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " " Their name their years spelt by th' unletter'd muse, " The place of fame and elegy supply:...she strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die. " The patronage of Somerleyton rectory is rested in the Rev. George Anguish, the incumbent to which... | |
 | Oxonian - 1826 - 318 pages
...revolting, than even that, which excites the astonishment of the poet. For wbo, to dumb forgot fulness, a prey % This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd?...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering' look, behind? No ! my every thought was devoted to the contemplation of Laura's charms, her wit, or her beauty; every... | |
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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. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
