 | 1801 - 452 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 páginas
...paia 'I giorno piangcr, die si muore. Dante. Purgat, 1. 3, Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...paia '1 giorno pianger, che si mnore. Dante. Purgat. 1. 8« Can storied urn or animated bust Bark to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...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 páginas
...JOHN PBINCE SMITH, Esq. Barrister at Law. ** Can storied urn, or animated bust, " Back to its mansión call the fleeting breath? ""' Can honour's voice provoke...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 páginas
...praise. .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...of death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition...ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have sway '<!, Or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...o'er their tomb no trophies raise, [vault, Where through the long drawn aisle, and fretted The peeling warming puff Regale chill'd fingers ; or from tube...polish'djet, Exhale mundungus, ill perfuming scent : Not Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 páginas
...vendirent pas Le faste du néant, les hymnes du trépas; Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's...of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid \ Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 páginas
...vendirent pas Le faste du néant, les hymnes du trépas; Can storied -uni, or animated bust, Back to ils mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice...of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked... | |
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Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 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... 
