 | 1801 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...trophies raise. Where thro' thclong-drawnisleand fretted vault. The IBM I i 1 1 • anthem swejls the note Beware of flatt'ry sootlj thu dull cold ear of death ? 20 BOOK I. IVrhaps in this neglected spot is laid Jionic... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...trophies raise, Where, thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vanlt, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. .Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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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 note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the... 
