 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...protect Some frail memorial still 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: And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Religion - 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
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and (hapeless 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 a holy text around she strews,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...protect Some frail memorial still 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 : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...protect Some frail memorial still 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... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...the passing trihute of a sigh, Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place ol Fame and Elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That irai.h the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulntss a prey, This pleasing anxious being... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected 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, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigb, With uncough rhimes and shapeless 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 a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...protect Some frail memorial still 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 : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passive tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt...fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around he strews, ;<, -. That teach the rustic moralist to die. ., ..,,. For who, to dumbforgetfulness,a prey,... | |
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With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist... 
