 | John Griscom - Europe - 1824 - 370 pages
...poetic interrogation, 'Can ftoriod urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath 1 Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death '? To the " cold ear" of departed heroes and philosophers, this flattery is utterly lost. It is only,... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...indulgence of excessive grief, such as he now felt, was, therefore, useless and unavailing " For could honour's voice provoke the silent dust ? Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of death ?" No ! Sir Walter knew that it were impossible ! and that circumstanced as he now was, the present... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...vendirent pas Le faste du néant, les 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and fretted The peeling anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to ney, or well polish'djet, Exhale mundungus, ill perfuming scent : Not soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...vendirent pas Le faste du néant, les hymnes du trépas; Can storied -uni, or animated bust, Back to ils 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 40 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 ? Ver. 37. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault.] This stanza... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, I lack to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's...dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid It Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Bark to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's...dust ? Or Flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that... | |
 | Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...the voice with the rising inflection on the word death : Can story'd 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 ? As the sense of the word or, that is, whether it means conjunction or disjunction, is not always... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...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... | |
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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? 
