 | John Aikin - 1821 - 807 sider
...o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long drawn aisle and fretted vault, The peeling anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn...voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe tin: dull cold car of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with... | |
 | British poets - 1822
...the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the' inevitable hour, The paths of glory...Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with... | |
 | 1822
...benefit is fame to a mind, per force believing itself mortal and dissoluble into the basest matter ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? But Lord Byron need not be informed, that there is a bad immortality as well as a good. He who burnt... | |
 | John Griscom - 1823
...collections, feel the force of that poetic interrogation, Can storied um, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? To the " cold ear" of departed heroes and philosophers, this flattery... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 sider
...o'er their tomb no trophies raise, [vault, Where through the long drawn aisle, and fretted The peeling warming puff Regale chill'd fingers ; or from tube...polish'djet, Exhale mundungus, ill perfuming scent : Not ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824
...vendirent pas Le faste du néant, les hymnes du trépas; Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's...dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid \ Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824
...vendirent pas Le faste du néant, les hymnes du trépas; Can storied -uni, or animated bust, Back to ils mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice...dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824
...glories shine in upon the cave of Machpelah , or light with a railt the hollow eye balls of decay ' ' Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death.' What was it, I ask, to Abraham that in Isaac his seed should be called children of faithful Abraham... | |
 | Soldier - 1824
...manner. (BY JOHN PRINCE SMITH, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.) "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 the dull cold ear of death?" No—this sad pile MACKINNON'S worth records; • Here grateful... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 624 sider
...COD storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion rail the fleeting breath ? Can honour's \oice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death." No, Lavalette : thou knowest they can do neither ; and therefore unavailing are all our regrets over... | |
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Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note... 
