 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 sider
...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, [dcck'd, Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd The... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 sider
...of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. XX. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XXI. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 sider
...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... | |
 | 1811 - 450 sider
...last tribute which the humblest pay to the most humble. " Yet e'en those bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh ; With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'ds Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." " The stranger, who in days to come, shall visit our... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 sider
...va!e of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way, Yet e'en these bones from insult to 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,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 sider
...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 sider
...of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. . Yet ev'n these bones, from insult to 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 sider
...vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to 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,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 sider
...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) ,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 sider
...protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With unconth rhymes and shapeless sculpture dvck'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... | |
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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. 
