...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, [deck'd, With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their...

...our modern villas, many a reader will be puzzled by the following verse of the poet : — " Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh!'1 Uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures ! Why, we shall have half an epic poem inscribed on...

...Along the cool', sequestered vale of life', They kept the noiseless tenour of their way'. Yet even these bones', from insult to protect', Some frail...still erected nigh', With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpturet decked', Implores the passing tribute of a sigh'. Their name\ their years', spelled by th*...

...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed, — ' That, e'en his bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Might claim the passing tribute of a sigh.' They began to rail in and to brick over the grave...

...stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With_uacouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, |es the passing tribute of a sigh. W itJ^unci Their...

...permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed, — ' That, e'en his bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deckt. Might claim the passing trihute of a sigh.' They began to rail in and to brick over the grave...

...the brook There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang. Hamlet, Act Iv. Sc. 7. 21 Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply. Gray. Each to his choice, soon whiten all the land. 294 There, from the sun-burnt hay-field homeward...

...the brook There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang. Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7. 21 Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply. Gray. 22 For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey — Each to his choice, soon whiten all the land. 294...

...from Gray's Elegy, to exemplify this power of connecting : "Home fniil memorial, «till erected nti^l, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." The noun " memorial," is here the subject of the verb "implores," which latter is qualified by the...

...uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture, decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Yet, even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, Their names, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply 5 And many...