 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...to stray : Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. XX. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XXI. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...to stray : Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. XX. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XXL Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 686 pages
...stray; Along the cool seq«e-.ter'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect. Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, [deck'd, Their name, their years, spelt by the unlctter'd The... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd va!e of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way, Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect •'Some frail...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...— Along1 the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt bj th' unklterM muse,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. . Yet ev'n these bones, from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by l.li' unletter'd... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...unadorned memorials of the dead : — Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, The plaoc of Fame and Elegy supply ; And many a holy text around...she strews, That teach THE RUSTIC MORALIST to die ! — This church-yard contained the ashes of the poet Gray (the author of these exquisite lines) ,... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...drawn a picture, to which, alas ! there are but too many originals. THE VILLAGE CHURCHYARD. " Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckM, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. " Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the pasting tribute of a sigh. T"heir name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralists to die. For who, to dumb "forgelfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd,... | |
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With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist... 
