 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted V8Bh, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied...o'f death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed. Or wak'd... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...o'er their tomb no trophies' raise', Where', through the long-drawn aisle' and fretted vault', . The pealing anthem swells the note of praise' Can storied...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...cener muto, E allettar morte inesorabil, cruda ? XI. XI. 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 ? XI. XII. Л ira KfÎTai aTuyvâ K fv тfpTrï \iapt£... | |
 | 1897 - 672 pages
...and powerless to realise our conception of the living man. 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? 121 122 had ever seen in human head), and we can only say... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...Memory o'er their Tomb no Trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied...ear of death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 40 Can storied um or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's...ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 238 pages
...levelling engine. Both return our awareness to primaries. 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? The full force of these rhetorical questions comes through their... | |
 | Christopher J. P. Smith - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 394 pages
...Southey's thoughts upon inscriptional or epitaphic writing. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's...silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?15 Gray's triumph was to consider the anonymous poor and obscure, and to ponder a different historical... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...grave. 4292 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its manslon d men and such as sleep o' nights; Yond' Cassius has...hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are danger 4293 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed... | |
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Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the... 
