 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 : And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd » The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?' And again : — ' For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?' Here we have not only ' the tone that tells of... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd The place of fame and elegy supply : [Muse, And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | 1833 - 244 pages
...illustrations of the poet's fancy ; may we not in every country see — ' Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, ' The place of fame and elegy supply...strews, ' That teach the rustic moralist to die.' ' The latter part of your quotation,' said Neville, ' is not so frequent ; in general the inscriptions... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 420 pages
...and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. C For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling' ring look behind ? 7 On some fond breast the parting soul relies,... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - Great Britain - 1833 - 174 pages
...matter. The poet Gray expresses himself very beautifully in his appeal to this universal feeling ; • " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...resign'd ? Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day. Nor cast one longing, liug'ring look behind. " If there exists such a feeling as this in the breasts... | |
 | Sir Jerom Murch - Baptists - 1835 - 612 pages
...and anxiety for the improvement of the living. v " Their names, their years spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." The origin and exact age of the society at Frenchay are involved in uncertainty. My earliest information... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd mn« The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — ,'g . '"•eft... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
..."the rude forefathers of the hamlet" he proceeds; "Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
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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. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er... 
