 Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor...  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 50by Thomas Gray - 1821 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Wilkes Allen - Chelmsford (Mass. : Town) - 1820 - 206 pages
...memory recalls to the contemplation of virtue!} and misfortunes like his. . For who to dumb oblivion a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? No farther seek his merits to disclose Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, There they alike... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That...teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetiulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, - Left the warm precincts of the... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...tribute of a sigh. Their name, tneir years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That...teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetiulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, •Left the warm precincts of the... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...the unleller'd muse, The pla"e of fame and elt-gy supply ; And many a holy text around she strewp, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, Tim pleasing, anxious being e'nr resign'd, Left the warm precinetsof the cheerful day; Nor cast one... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...tribute of a sigh. T"heir name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralists to die. For who, to dumb "forgelfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...brayVf Horrible discord ; and the madding' wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound Imitating Reluctance. For who, to- dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. Connubial... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...<&pitapfje. " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unfetter" d Muse, The place of Tame, and Elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." GkAY's ELECv. IT is an incident worthy of remark, that the love of Fame, which so powerfully actuates... | |
 | 1821 - 456 pages
...©it ffiountry " Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettei'd Muse, The place of fame, and Elegy supply : And many a holy text around 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a 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... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...passages of his works he is thought to have imitated Gray, as in those fine lines in his Elegy— " And who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd !" Italic^ — " E chi mai cede a una eterna oblivione questa cara e trava'gliata esistenza ! " But... | |
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