 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 σελίδες
...apply the oftenquoted, but heart-searching inquiry :— " Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath * Can honour's...dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ?' For if these things cannot prolong, for a moment, the life that now is, they will have no influence... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 σελίδες
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | 1800 - 322 σελίδες
...The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, > • : ," I Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, . ;' Or flatt'ry soothe the dull, cold-ear of death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 σελίδες
...fretted vault . The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the... | |
 | 1801 - 452 σελίδες
...the Monthly Visitor. THOUGHTS ON MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? THE Elegy of Gray (from which I have here quoted a verse, as a... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 σελίδες
...pe.al, means properly a succession of loud founds. " Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice...: . Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of Death ) } Storiedt — embossed with figures, representing some history of the deceased, as the Barberini... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 σελίδες
...fretted vault, The pealing anthern swells the note of praise. , Can storied urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neg'ected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 σελίδες
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 σελίδες
...fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn , or animated bust , Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ; Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | 1806 - 408 σελίδες
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
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Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? 
