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? The Crane Reader - Стр. 2371902Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1801 - Страниц: 452
...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 - Страниц: 604
...vault. The IBM I i 1 1 • anthem swejls the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to D ' Ѽj4 i ̯ 輖 ˑ$'- ; ~ ,(N \Z d6 x 3 t k7a_ Wצ A flatt'ry sootlj thu dull cold ear of death ? 20 BOOK I. IVrhaps in this neglected spot is laid Jionic... | |
| British poets - 1809 - Страниц: 526
...fretted vanlt, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting 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 - Страниц: 628
...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 - Страниц: 750
...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 - Страниц: 310
...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 Honor's...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 - Страниц: 424
...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 - Страниц: 276
...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 - Страниц: 158
...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 - Страниц: 434
...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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