 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 trang
...rejected stanzas equal to any in the whole Elegy. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...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 resign'd,... | |
 | 1800 - 322 trang
...sculpture 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...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 resign'd, Left... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 trang
...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...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,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 trang
...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. xx. ; .. , " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletlcr'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...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 resign'd,... | |
 | 1832 - 852 trang
...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... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 trang
...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...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 resiga'd,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 trang
...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...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 resign'd,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 trang
...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names , their years , spelt by th' unletler'd Muse , The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...holy text around she strews , That teach, the rustic moralist to die. For -who, to dumb foreetfulness a prey, TI • i • T • i • ii ims pleasing anxious... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 trang
...deck'd Implores the passing trihute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt hy th' uuletter'd Mu«» 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 dumh forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious heing e'er resign'd,... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 trang
...uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Theiç name, their years , spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place...holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist, to die. For who , to dumb forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing ajaxious.beiag e'er resign'd.... | |
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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. 
