| THOMAS WEMYSS - 1840 - 560 páginas
...to be seen by men ;" and our Lord traces them all to the principle of vain ostentation. " Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing trihute of a sigh." The Jews were in the habit of visiting the sepulchres of the dead ; and hence they... | |
| George Willson - 1840 - 298 páginas
...,•?.*"• Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20 Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...* '• With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked. Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ,_ 21 Their names, their years, spoiled by the unlettered... | |
| Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 páginas
...sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet, even these bones from insult (o protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered Muse,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 páginas
...stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tcnour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
| George Mogridge - 1841 - 234 páginas
...that meet their eyes are often of an arresting kind. In whatever part of the cemetery they may be, " Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." And, if they are led within the venerated pile, to gaze on the more costly memorials of the dead —... | |
| 1841 - 908 páginas
...mindful of the " unhonored dead," 1941.] [Ann, when wandering through this silent grave, will find— 14 Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, " Some...nigh, " With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked " Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." Situated in full view of the Tillage, it would seem... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 páginas
...2Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life', | They kept the noiseless tenor of their way,. | Yet e'en these bones, from insult to protect, | Some frail...nigh', | With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture deckW', | Implores the passing tribute of a sigh,. | Their names', their years', spell'd by theunletter'd... | |
| Henry Hudson Holly - 1993 - 268 páginas
...trees, and among moss-covered gravestones, " the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." " Yet c'eti these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." Hard by stands the church. The ivy has crept quite... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...ignoble strife Their sober wishes never leamed to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 80 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered... | |
| Wendell Mayo - 1996 - 132 páginas
...laugh. You see? There will be plenty of stories, plenty from now on, plenty to tell the priest. Soledad Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. — Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Church- Yard" I pulled myself together, of course. What... | |
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