 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 sider
...dark*. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can H urine's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of Death? — Gray. "Where IB the true man's fatherland? Is it where he by chance is born ? Both not the yearning... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 sider
...lead — but to the grave ! Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tombs no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle...dust ? Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death 1 Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid, Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; — Hands,... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 sider
...Between the lines of a stanza also ; as, in the following : " 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 ? " The first line of this stanza contains a comma pause ; the caesural... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 sider
...power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : — TBSLpaths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud,...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 sider
...trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the notes of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back...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... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 sider
...fretted vault, The pealing unthem swells the notes of praise. Can storied urn, and 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... | |
 | John Hunter - 1848 - 224 sider
...which was become requisite, that he might conduct the captive king with safety into England. Hume. Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Gray. F 3 Some of the stars grow periodically fainter and brighter. Whewcll. Fallen cherub, to be... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1848 - 270 sider
...children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death ? I have none ; else would I give it. He is either sick or fatigued, (372, a.) I neither knew what I was,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 sider
...praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath T Can Honor's voice provoke the silent 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 the... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 sider
...the notes of praise. Can storied urn and animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath 1 Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death 7 Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid, Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that... | |
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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... 
