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Vestina's Martyrdom; a Story of the Catacombs - Page 173
by Emma Raymond Pitman - 1869 - 368 pages
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Oeuvres completes de M. J. Chenier: precedees de notices ..., Volume 3

Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...learn' d to stray; Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...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...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Mufle, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse,...
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The Comic Annual

Thomas Hood - 1839 - 320 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh ; With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, He never lets the children play thereby. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. 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. •Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's...
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The American Manual, Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 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,...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd » The place of fame and elegy supply ; And...
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The Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors ...

Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...cool, sequester'd vale oflife. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these Ь-т.ьз from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...nigh. With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, 75 Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ; Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...many a stone, excite a pleasing melancholy, in regard to the tenants of this quiet spot : — Yet ev'n 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, GRAV. If we climb the mountain, we behold a vast variety...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, [deck'd, With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their...
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The American Manual: Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 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...
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