 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 páginas
...the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise....breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 páginas
...apply the oftenquoted, but heart-searching inquiry :— " Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath * Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ?' For if these things cannot prolong, for a moment, the life that... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 páginas
...the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault . The pealing anthem swells the note of praise....breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the... | |
 | 1800 - 322 páginas
...The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, > • : ," I Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, . ;' Or flatt'ry soothe the dull, cold-ear of death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | 1801 - 452 páginas
...the Monthly Visitor. THOUGHTS ON MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's...dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? THE Elegy of Gray (from which I have here quoted a verse, as a kind of motto) is universally admired... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 páginas
...pe.al, means properly a succession of loud founds. " Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the. silent dust ? : . Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of Death ) } Storiedt — embossed with figures, representing some history... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 páginas
...fault , If Mem'ry o'er their tombs no trophies raise , Where thro' the long-drawn isle, and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise....breath ; Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 páginas
...the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise....breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 páginas
...their tomb.no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthern swells the note of praise. , Can storied urn or animated...Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neg'ected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 páginas
...fault, If mem'ry o'er their tomh no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated hust Back to its mansion call the nesting hreath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps... | |
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Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. 
