 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, 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... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by tbe unlettered luuso, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, most astonishing scenes I ev^r beheld. Add to this the étrange views made b unlettered Mufle, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...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 many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, 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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected 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 ' muse, shed, The place of fame and e!egy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews,... | |
 | 1833 - 244 pages
...among the wild Irish, we have illustrations of the poet's fancy ; may we not in every country see — ' Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse,...strews, ' That teach the rustic moralist to die.' ' The latter part of your quotation,' said Neville, ' is not so frequent ; in general the inscriptions... | |
 | Sir Jerom Murch - Baptists - 1835 - 612 pages
...and anxiety for the improvement of the living. v " Their names, their years spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." The origin and exact age of the society at Frenchay are involved in uncertainty. My earliest information... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd mn« The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — ,'g . '"•eft... | |
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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... 
