 | 1821 - 270 pages
...bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralists to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pages
...bonus from insult to protect, Some frail memorial siill erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of...spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elogy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who,... | |
 | 1821 - 456 pages
...then cry, O do not leave me yet ! ©it ffiountry " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettei'd Muse, The place of fame, and Elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GRAY'S ELEGY. • IT is an incident worthy of remark, that the love of Fame, which so powerfully actuates... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...trfmrcfiyarlr <&pitapfje. " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unfetter" d Muse, The place of Tame, and Elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GkAY's ELECv. IT is an incident worthy of remark, that the love of Fame, which so powerfully actuates... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name.their years,spelt by the'unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. • Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the fbnr following:—... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 396 pages
...pain'd regret Which they excite— then cry, O do not leave me yet ! ON COUNTRY CHURCHYARD EPITAPHS. " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." . GRAY'S ELEGY. IT is an incident worthy of remark, that the love of Fame, which so powerfully actuates... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...with the solemnity of these homes of the departed. " Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, " The place of Fame and Elegy supply ; " And...strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die." MIDDLETON BATH. 27 We do not indeed expect to find the poetry of a Gray on these simple tablets of... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 pages
...with the solemnity of these homes of the departed. " Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, " The place of Fame and Elegy supply ; " And...holy text around she strews, " That teach the rustic moralUt to die." We do not indeed expect to find the poetry of a Gray on these simple tablets" of fond... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...with the world they inhabited, have all totally disappeared ! 6. G. ON COUNTRY CHURCHYARD EPITAPHS. "Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of Fame and Elegy supply: And many ft holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GRAY'S ELEGY. IT is an incident... | |
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With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist... 
