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" 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, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... "
The pleasures of hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. To which are ... - Page 211
by Thomas Campbell - 1854
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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued ..., Volume 9

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,...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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 frail memorial...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...wishes never learn'd to 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...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 a holy...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They foe As now is enter'd : yet no purpoe'd foe To you,...seek, And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That unlettcr'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That...
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The Actor's Budget: Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, and ...

William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these...Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years...
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Œuvres de M.J. Chénier ...: précédés d'une notice sur Chénier, Volume 3

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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œuvres de M. J. Chénier ...: précédés d'une notice sur Chénier, Volume 3

Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 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 the 'unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...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 frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'U, Implores the passing tribute ot a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never leam'd to stray ; Along the eool sequester'd vale of life They ny, With dearth of words, or answers quite awry To them that would make sp proteet Some frail memorial still ereeted nigh, With uneouth rhymes and shapeless seulpture deek'd...
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 11

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 826 pages
...being permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed ; " That, ev'n his bones from insult to protect,' Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhiraes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Might claim the passing tribute of a sigh.'' 1063] They began...
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