 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...wishes never learnt to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to...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 a holy... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial...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 a holy... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...endless wishes room; But through the cool sequester'd vale of life Pursue the silent tenour of thy doom. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, [deck'd, Their name, their years, spell'd by the' unletter'd... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...description of this feeling, as heing particularly applicahle to this character, " Yet e'en these hones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked. Implores the passing trihute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt hy the unlettered muse,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet c'en these bones from insuit to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck' d Implores the passing tribute x>fa sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...wishes never leanrtl to stray — Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'U, Implores the passing tribute ot a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life 75 They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, Ver. 73. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.] VARIATION. " The thoughtless world to majesty... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 826 pages
...being permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed ; " That, ev'n his bones from insult to protect,' Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhiraes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Might claim the passing tribute of a sigh.'' 1063] They began... | |
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Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 
