 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 страници
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ?... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 страници
...sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 страници
...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elogy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?... | |
 | 1821 - 456 страници
...then cry, O do not leave me yet ! ©it ffiountry " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettei'd Muse, The place of fame, and Elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GRAY'S ELEGY. • IT is an incident worthy of remark, that the love of Fame, which so powerfully actuates... | |
 | 1821 - 282 страници
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralists to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd... | |
 | 1822 - 418 страници
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 страници
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name.their years,spelt by the'unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. • Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the fbnr following:—... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1822 - 246 страници
...from Gray's Elegy, written in a country church yard, are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...resigned ? Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind?" The words longing and lingering express most forcibly... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 страници
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 страници
...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'erfresign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
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Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 
