 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pagina’s
...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...Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pagina’s
...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...breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pagina’s
...The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, > • : ," I Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's...the silent dust, . ;' Or flatt'ry soothe the dull, cold-ear of death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pagina’s
...the Monthly Visitor. THOUGHTS ON MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. 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 the dull cold ear of death ? THE Elegy of Gray (from which I have here quoted a verse,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pagina’s
...pe.al, means properly a succession of loud founds. " Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the. silent dust ? : . Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of Death ) } Storiedt — embossed with figures, representing some... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pagina’s
...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...Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pagina’s
...Mem'ry o'er their tombs no trophies raise , Where thro' the long-drawn isle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied...Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once prenant with... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pagina’s
...their tomb.no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthern swells the note of praise. , Can storied urn or animated...breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neg'ected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pagina’s
...mem'ry o'er their tomh no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated hust Back to its mansion call the nesting hreath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagina’s
...If Mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn isle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied...of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire : Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
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Await alike th' 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... 
