 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spell'd by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy...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... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...decked. Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ,_ 21 Their names, their years, spoiled by the unlettered muse The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...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... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 Seiten
...us this truth in lines of transcendant beauty and force, which find a response in every breast : " 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 ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 Seiten
...shapeless sculpture 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:...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... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 Seiten
...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' 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?... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1841 - 416 Seiten
...sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; Aud many a holy text around she strews, That teach the...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look... | |
 | William Jones - 1842 - 294 Seiten
...sculpture 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...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.' In meditating on the diversity of character amongst those who lay below, I have thought, ' Some may... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...sculpture decked, Implores the peering tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 Seiten
...centrally Augustan in its concerns, and gives us some valuable clues to the rest of Augustan poetry. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? (lines 85-8) On a universal level, that speaks... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - 1991 - 292 Seiten
...Country Church Yard, 1751,1. 88; the narrator, contemplating the gravestones in the churchyard, asks: For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? See "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard,"... | |
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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... 
