 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 440by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n 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... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pages
...learnt 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...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 ; And many... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...endless wishes room; But through the cool sequester'd vale of life Pursue the silent tenour of thy doom. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, [deck'd, Their name, their years, spell'd by the' unletter'd... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...description of this feeling, as heing particularly applicahle to this character, " Yet e'en these hones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked. Implores the passing trihute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt hy the unlettered muse,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 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...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...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 ; And many... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial...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 : And many... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n you, whom I could pity thus forlorn, Though I unpitied....seek, And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettcr'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet c'en these bones from insuit to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck' d Implores the passing tribute x>fa sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse... | |
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