 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 σελίδες
...its mansion call the fleeting breath * Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ?' For if these things...Westminster Abbey without admiration of the exquisite specimens of human art and ingenuity that decorate the place—without feeling a reverence for the... | |
 | 1801 - 452 σελίδες
...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 kind of motto) is universally admired... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 σελίδες
...Dante. Purgat. 1. 8« Can storied urn or animated bust Bark to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd doaj, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 σελίδες
...Dante. Purgat, 1. 3, 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 ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that... | |
 | 1813 - 750 σελίδες
...at Law. ** Can storied urn, or animated bust, " Back to its mansión call the fleeting breath? ""' Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust? " Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ?" JNío ! — This sad pile Mackinnon's worth records; I~Iere grateful nations heap their last rewards... | |
 | 1814 - 310 σελίδες
...praise. .Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 σελίδες
...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 Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the... | |
 | 1822 - 468 σελίδες
...benefit is fame to a mind, per force believing itself mortal and dissoluble into the basest matter ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? But Lord Byron need not be informed, that there is a bad immortality as well as a good. He who burnt... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 σελίδες
...hymnes du trépas; 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 ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid \ Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 σελίδες
...the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? gus, ill perfuming scent : Not ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
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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? 
