 | Henry Davies - 1843 - 262 pages
...and in his " Meditations among the Tombs," will be forcibly reminded of Gray's stanzas: " Yet er'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implore the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept tho noiseless tenor of their way. Yet eron decked, Implores the peering tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...scquester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yetev'n these hones from ;nsult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh....and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing trihute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt hy th' nnletterM man. The place of fame and elegy... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 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 uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures deckt, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...stray ; Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. XX. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XXI. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life, XIX. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XX. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...ar^uaients against buth. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. £'78. Of the Style of I lie Holy Scripture*. Vet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Gray. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, INSUIT. 3 INSULT. of il in h'13 modes of disputation;... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 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,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelled by the unlettered... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 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 uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptBM decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelled by the unld-ierM... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool, sequestered 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 decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse,... | |
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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. 
