 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th" unletter'd Muse,...Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
 | 1832 - 852 pages
...interment. Gray, in his beautiful and mischievous elegy, thus tells, indeed, of the unlettered muse : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. But tliis is not true. Holy texts are % rarely discoverable in cemeteries ; and, even when found, they... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...With uncouth rhymes and fhapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. \? -. . » Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse....forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resiga'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling' ring look behind?... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names , their years , spelt by th' unletler'd Muse , The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...teach, the rustic moralist to die. For -who, to dumb foreetfulness a prey, TI • i • T • i • ii ims pleasing anxious being e er resign'u , Left the... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...deck'd Implores the passing trihute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt hy th' uuletter'd Mu«» The place of Fame and Elegy supply : And many a holy...That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumh forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious heing e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the... | |
 | 1812 - 1016 pages
...1812, With uncouth rhymes, and shhpless sculpture cteck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd ? J.ct't the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one lunging, lingering look, behind. GHAY'S... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...sculpture deckd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Theiç name, their years , spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...who , to dumb forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing ajaxious.beiag e'er resign'd. Sur de rians climats répande l'abondance , ; , Dans les yeux des humains... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unfetter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dvmb Forgetfulness a prey, " 'i This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...monuments and simple epitaphs of the swains, the amiable poet falls into a very natural reflection : 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 ? Of this art POPE has exhibited some specimens... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and 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 ; . . '. . '.i And many• ab•oly text arpund she strews, . j That teach the rustic moralist to die.... | |
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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. 
