 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their yefers, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many...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... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by tbe unlettered luuso, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy...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... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - Anthems - 1828 - 518 pages
...from its clog of clay, And let me dwell with thee ! EARTH AND HEAVEN. " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, " This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd;...day, "Nor cast one longing lingering look behind." One man, the Christian, found in wisdom's way, His eye on Calvary fix'd, to God resign'd, Can leave... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 5 Their name, their years, spelt by th' un/etter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 6 For who, to dumb forsretfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 6 For who, to dumb forgetful ness a prey, This pleasing...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ( 7 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...concerns, and gives us some valuable clues to the rest of Augustan poetry. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? (lines 85-8) On a universal level, that speaks... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - Education - 1991 - 292 pages
...the narrator, contemplating the gravestones in the churchyard, asks: For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? See "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard,"... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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...teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 80 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many...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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...sculpture decked. Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse. The place of fame and elegy supply: And many...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... | |
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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. 
