| Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...5JO. Yet ev'n th^se bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh,\Vithuncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the...passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...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...still erected nigh', With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpturet decked', Implores the passing tribute of a sigh'. Their name\ their years', spelled by th*... | |
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 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,...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 text around she... | |
| Sir Jerom Murch - Baptists - 1835 - 614 pages
...memories of the dead and anxiety for the improvement of the living. " Their names, their years spelt by the unlettered muse. The place of fame and elegy...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... | |
| Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...noiseless tenor of their way. .'». •;.• •• .. •. • • MY .••• i»i >• Yet even these bones, from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and. shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse,... | |
| 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... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, — Left the warm... | |
| Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...Having mentioned "the rude forefathers of the hamlet" he proceeds; "Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. "For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts... | |
| 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... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many... | |
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