| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...fretted v.iult 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... | |
| Thomas Branagan - Bibliography - 1812 - 370 pages
...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... | |
| 1813 - 750 pages
...JOHN PBINCE SMITH, Esq. Barrister 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... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...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... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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 Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1817 - 710 pages
...knows well how to appreciate the maxim of the pensive Gray : Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, [death ? Or Flattery sooth the dull cold earth of The subject of this Memoir was the only sister of... | |
| George Watterston - Statesmen - 1818 - 158 pages
...age." Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath .' Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death. It is but justice, however, to state that though the American government have refused to erect a monument... | |
| Pierce Egan - Bath (England) - 1819 - 398 pages
...preserved a: spotless character. • . r "' .''J Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansions call the fleeting breath ? • Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, ,| ! Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? The CHURCHYARD is also worthy of a visit, to view the family-vault,... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...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... | |
| 1813 - 592 pages
...storied urn or animated bust, cannot, back to its mansion call the fleeting breath,' nor ' honours' voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of death,' yet we who survive draw some consolation from the sepulchral marble, making it in a measure speak of... | |
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