| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 páginas
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. , For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
| 1821 - 456 páginas
...then cry, O do not leave me yet ! ©it ffiountry " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettei'd Muse, The place of fame, and Elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GRAY'S ELEGY. • IT is an incident worthy of remark, that the love of Fame, which so powerfully actuates... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 páginas
...elegy supply: [Muse, And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look beh1nd ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en... | |
| 1822 - 418 páginas
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 páginas
...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 : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. • Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the fbnr following:—... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'erfresign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 páginas
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse' The place of fame and elegy supply...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
| 1824 - 398 páginas
...cry, O do not leave me yet ! ON COUNTRY CHURCHYARD EPITAPHS. " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of Fame and Elegy supply...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GRAY'S ELEGY. IT is an incident worthy of remark, that the love of Fame, which so powerfully actuates... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettcr'd spirits bright Little inferior ; whom my thoughts...and could love, so lively shines In them divine res • For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm... | |
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