 Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold...  Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities - Página 242por Edwin Waugh - 1857 - 247 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 298 páginas
...inquiry : — .3 " Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its imtnsiim chll the fleeting breath 7 Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death!" For if these things cannot prolong for a moment the life that now is, they will have no influence on... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 páginas
...Example. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death ? L. REPETITION. Repetition seizes some emphatical word, or phrase, and, to mark its importance, makes... | |
 | George May (of Evesham, Eng.) - 1845 - 576 páginas
...praise. • Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ' Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death i" These premises were in 1723 assigned to John Beaufoy and others; to the intent that one messuage... | |
 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - 1985 - 280 páginas
...tomb no trophies raise . . . Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? or the plangent defiance of this epitaph: If breath were made For every man to buy The poor man would... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 páginas
...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 pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 páginas
...other lives by allowing us to forget that their actual lives are foreshortened by poverty and not by death: Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some...that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. . . . (45-48) The conditions preventing such accomplishment must obtain equally... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...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...that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this...that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 páginas
...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 pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - 1999 - 388 páginas
...its mansion call the fleeting 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 45 Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
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