 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 sider
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition...note of 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 soothe... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 sider
...of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,...note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 sider
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition...of 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 sider
...Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition...If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 sider
...Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow' d the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition...fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Rien ne peut les troubler dans leur couche dernière : Ni le clairon du coq annonçant la lumière;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield 1 How bow'd woo to hear thy evening-song ; And [vault, Where through the long drawn aisle, and fretted The peeling anthem swells the note of praise.... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 sider
...power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud,...note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath I Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt' ry... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sider
...homely joys, and destiny obseure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple ;nmaK te ; As if it sigh'd with eaeh man's eare For being so remote ; Think how Baek to its mansion eall the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voiee provoke the silent dust, Or flattery... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 sider
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition...note of 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... | |
 | 1826 - 310 sider
...of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud,...note of 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... | |
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Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,... 
