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The Wreath: A Collection of Poems from Celebrated English Authors - Page 120
1821 - 259 pages
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The American Manual, Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd...
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The Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors ...

Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...cool, sequester'd vale oflife. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these Ь-т.ьз from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, 75 Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ; Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd ' muse,...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...many a stone, excite a pleasing melancholy, in regard to the tenants of this quiet spot : — Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, GRAV. If we climb the mountain, we behold a vast variety of scenery, from the base to the far distant...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 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...to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, [deck'd, With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their...
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The recess, or autumnal relaxation in the Highlands and Lowlands, a tour to ...

James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pages
...our modern villas, many a reader will be puzzled by the following verse of the poet : — " Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh!'1 Uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures ! Why, we shall have half an epic poem inscribed on...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...crowd's ignoble strife', Their sober wishes never learned to stray'; — Along the cool', sequestered vale of life', They kept the noiseless tenour of their way'. Yet even these bones', from insult to protect', Some frail memorial still erected nigh', With uncouth rhymes...
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Memoirs of the life of ... sir James Mackintosh [extr. from ..., Volume 2

sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 pages
...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed, — ' That, e'en his bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Might claim the passing tribute of a sigh.' They began to rail in and to brick over the grave...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 pages
...stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With_uacouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, |es the passing tribute of a sigh. W itJ^unci Their...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...madding crowd's ignoble strife,* Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their...e'en these bones, from insult to protect Some frail memorisl still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless seulptvire decked Implores the passing...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 2

Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 546 pages
...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed, — ' That, e'en his bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt. Might claim the passing trihute of a sigh.' They began to rail in and to brick over the grave...
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