 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - Страниц: 372
...apply the oftenquoted, but heart-searching inquiry :— " Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath * Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ?' For if these things cannot prolong, for a moment, the life that... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - Страниц: 270
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 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? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | 1800 - Страниц: 322
...The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, > • : ," I Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour'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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - Страниц: 302
...fretted vault . The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the... | |
 | 1801 - Страниц: 452
...the Monthly Visitor. THOUGHTS ON MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's...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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - Страниц: 152
...pe.al, means properly a succession of loud founds. " Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the. silent dust ? : . Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of Death ) } Storiedt — embossed with figures, representing some history... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - Страниц: 132
...fretted vault, The pealing anthern swells the note of 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 sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neg'ected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - Страниц: 224
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 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 ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - Страниц: 418
...fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 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 ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - Страниц: 456
...its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected...Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils... | |
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