Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, 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 dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,... A New Library of Poetry and Songedited by - 1876 - 934 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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...Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? Hark I how the sacred calm, that breathes around,... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...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...forgetfulness a prey» This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...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...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resiga'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling' ring look behind?... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...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...Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th* unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply,...Forgetfulness a prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, H 145 Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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...Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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...forgetfulness a prey, . This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
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