 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...vendirent pas Le faste du néant, les hymnes du trépas; Can storied -uni, or animated bust, Back to ils mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice...the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold car of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 pages
...glories shine in upon the cave of Machpelah, or light with a smile the hollow eye balls of decay ? * Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death i" iv.] TO ABRAHAM. What was it, I ask, to Abraham, that in Isaac his seed should be called children... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Bark to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust ? Or Flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, I lack to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid It Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...the voice with the rising inflection on the word death : Can story'd urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? As the sense of the word or, that is, whether it means conjunction... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...fretted Vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death F Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...mansion call the fleeted breath? — Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust— Or Flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of death? Perhaps, in this neglected...Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...of death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre: Some heart, once... | |
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