 | 1801 - 452 páginas
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...fretted vanlt, The pealing anthem swells the 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 Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...vault. The IBM I i 1 1 • anthem swejls the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to D ' Ѽj4 i ̯ 輖 ˑ$'- ; ~ ,(N \Z d6 x 3 t k7a_ Wצ A flatt'ry sootlj thu dull cold ear of death ? 20 BOOK I. IVrhaps in this neglected spot is laid Jionic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 Honor's...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...frettedyault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honor'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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Watterston - 1818 - 158 páginas
...monument is to " read their gratitude in a nations age." Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath .' Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death. It is but justice, however, to state that though the American government... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 páginas
...fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Orflatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of death? Perhaps, in this neglected spot is laid Some heart, once... | |
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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? 
