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
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 546 pages
...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed, — ' That, e'en his bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt. Might claim the passing trihute of a sigh.' They began to rail in and to brick over the grave... | |
| 1836 - 206 pages
...from Gray's Elegy, to exemplify this power of connecting : "Home fniil memorial, «till erected nti^l, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." The noun " memorial," is here the subject of the verb "implores," which latter is qualified by the... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture, decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Yet, even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, Their names, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply 5 And many... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 542 pages
...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed, — ' That, e'en his bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With unconth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Might claim the passing tribute of a sigh.' They began... | |
| Thomas Lilley - 1837 - 88 pages
...Surrounded with monuments of departed souls. How exquisite are the lines of Gray :— " Yet e'en these hones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture deck'd, But now the bells have ceased their merry chime ; the reverend ambassador of the meek and lowly Jesus... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...: Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...Quelques rimes sans art, d'incultes ornemens, Recommandent aux yeux ces obscurs monumens : XX. Yet enen these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Ovófurf, rfS ¿тf ii/вà, тà yàp fióva \ftyava AIT' f\fyшv фаfiaaff à Maaa '/iaxros евуKfу... | |
| 1839 - 300 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...sasso vicino, D' incolte rime, e rozze forme sculto, Qualche sospir richiede al peregrino. XX. XX. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture cleek'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XX. л XXI. Qvofiaт , у!f fTf' fvÔà, тà yàp... | |
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