 | 1801 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 750 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
....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 - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice scent : Not ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 622 pages
...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... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...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 - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...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 Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? 
