 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 sidor
...their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' 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 sooth the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 sidor
...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 - 1800 - 302 sidor
...their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' 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, Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the... | |
 | 1800 - 322 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1801 - 452 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sidor
...their tombs no trophies raise , Where thro' the long-drawn isle, 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 sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 sidor
...their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' 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 sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 sidor
...Attester de lews ttoms le né Where, thro' 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 sooth the dull cold ear of death? Perhaps-in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | 1806 - 408 sidor
...their tomb no trophies raise, Where thro' the long-drawn isle 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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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? 
