 | 1801 - 452 pages
...the Monthly Visitor. THOUGHTS ON MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. 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 ? THE Elegy of Gray (from which I have here quoted a verse, as a kind of motto) is universally admired... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...paia 'I giorno piangcr, die si muore. Dante. Purgat, 1. 3, Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...paia '1 giorno pianger, che si mnore. Dante. Purgat. 1. 8« Can storied urn or animated bust Bark to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd doaj, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition...ear 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 '<!, Or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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 Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...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...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 waked... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 40 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 ? Ver. 37. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault.] This stanza is ennobled by what our Author... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...glory 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...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... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, . Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected...living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unrol Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze... | |
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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... 
