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" Muse The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. "
The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature ... - Page 54
1824
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...Their names, their years, spelled by the unld-ierM The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned , — Left the warm...
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A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 ...

Joshua Coffin - 1845 - 438 pages
...Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletttered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.' There are, in Newbury, several other burial-grounds, both public and private, that have not been noticed,...
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Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard

Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. XXI. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; Left the warm...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

1846 - 436 pages
...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 to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1847 - 672 pages
...names, their years, spelt by the" unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." Here is the poet looking at uncouth rhymes, and graceless sculpture, and the works of the unlettered...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign' d, Left the warm precincts...
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Gray's Poetical Works: English and Latin : Illustrated

Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pages
...flat and unpoetical expression, " Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault." Again, " And many a holy text around she strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die." As this construction is not, as it now stands, correct, I think that Gray originally wrote to teach,...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

Harold Bloom - 1997 - 212 pages
...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 to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey. This pleasing anxious being, e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...
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