Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note... English Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Pàgina 184editat per - 1918 - 364 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pàgines
...no trophies' raise', Where', through the long-drawn aisle' and fretted vault', . The pealing anthem swells the note of praise' Can storied urn', or animated...honour's voice provoke the silent dust', Or flattery sooth the dull', cold ear of death'? Perhaps' . . in this neglected spot' . . is laid' Some heart once... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pàgines
...Fait-elle entendre aux morts ses accens suborneurs ? XI. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...dust ? Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? тra «iтai ortryvw K v тfpтгï Ti5 тгôK av ¿>pavíш pnrà тrvpàs %тор àvrf\l/f Kai... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pàgines
...cener muto, E allettar morte inesorabil, cruda ? XI. XI. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...dust ? Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? XI. XII. Л ira KfÎTai aTuyvâ K fv тfpTrï \iapt£ T¿> iTÓк' av ¿>pavía> pтà m>pos утop... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pàgines
...tombs no trophies raise, "Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated...Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
| William Smyth - 1840 - 92 pàgines
...would they have been once ! — how vain were they now ! " Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's...dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ?" Yet they are right and proper, and let them be paid, these offerings to the dead. They are derived... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pàgines
...their tomb no trophies raise Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise Can storied urn, or animated...honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pàgines
...its mansion call the fleeting breath'? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust', Or flattery sooth the dull', cold ear of death'? Perhaps' . . in this...the rod of empire might have swayed', Or waked to eestasy the living lyre': But knowledge to their eyes her ample page', Rich with the spoils of time',... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem ecstacy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 pàgines
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the notes of praise. Can storied urn and animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's...that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time,... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 324 pàgines
...their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated...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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