 | 1801 - 452 trang
...INSCRIPTIONS. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? THE Elegy of Gray (from which I have here quoted a verse, as a kind of motto) is universally admired for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 trang
...1. 8« Can storied urn or animated bust Bark to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd doaj, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If... | |
 | 1813 - 750 trang
...Can storied urn, or animated bust, " Back to its mansión call the fleeting breath? ""' Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust? " Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ?" JNío ! — This sad pile Mackinnon's worth records; I~Iere grateful nations heap their last rewards... | |
 | 1814 - 310 trang
...note of praise. .Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 trang
...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 soothe the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the... | |
 | 1822 - 468 trang
...fame to a mind, per force believing itself mortal and dissoluble into the basest matter ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? But Lord Byron need not be informed, that there is a bad immortality as well as a good. He who burnt... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 622 trang
...in upon the cave of Machpelah , or light with a railt the hollow eye balls of decay ' ' Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death.' What was it, I ask, to Abraham that in Isaac his seed should be called children of faithful Abraham... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 trang
...praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's uming scent : Not ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 trang
...COD storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion rail the fleeting breath ? Can honour's \oice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death." No, Lavalette : thou knowest they can do neither ; and therefore unavailing are all our regrets over... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 trang
...praise. 40 Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Ver. 37. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault.] This stanza is ennobled by what our Author... | |
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Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? 
