| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 sider
...Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame! 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. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 sider
...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth...passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered muse The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she... | |
| John Malcolm - 1829 - 344 sider
...feeling, that we would not be forgotten, which lurks in the depths of the human heart : — " Their names, their years spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply." It is a calm and somewhat sultry evening in the month of August, of that twilight softness peculiar... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 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 by the 'unletter'd Muse... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sider
...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, e mountains on each sido, concurs to form one of ihe...beheld. Add to this the étrange views made by the crags Mufle, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 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 by th' unlettered Muse,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1839 - 320 sider
...vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh ; With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, He never lets the children play thereby. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sider
...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. 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. •Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's... | |
| Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 sider
...life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd » The place of fame and elegy supply ; And... | |
| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 sider
...oflife. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these Ь-т.ьз from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh. With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, 75 Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ; Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd... | |
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