 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...  The Library of Poetry and Song - Pagina 306geredigeerd door - 1925 - 1100 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pagina’s
...sculpture deck'U, Implores the passing tribute ot a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pagina’s
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being ere resign'd, Left the. warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling' ring look behind... | |
 | John Kitto - 1825 - 244 pagina’s
...difficult to assign a cause for that reluctance to die which even the wisest aud the best may experience ; For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering, look behind ? As for myself— witness every feeling of my heart, tbat years have intervened since I contemplated... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pagina’s
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ?... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pagina’s
...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...forgetfulness a prey, -• ? This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pagina’s
...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...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ?... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pagina’s
...sculpture deck'd ; Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pagina’s
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day. Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
 | 1827 - 386 pagina’s
...He was interred yesterday, at a place he lately purchased in the bury, ing-ground on the Gallon. u For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...cheerful day. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind!" A monument on that airy elevated cemetry, which, on account of a magnificent terrace now carried... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pagina’s
...shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse. The place of fame and elegy supply,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en... | |
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