 | 1801 - 452 lehte
...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 ? THE Elegy of Gray (from which I have here quoted a verse, as a kind of motto) is universally admired... | |
 | 1813 - 750 lehte
...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 nations heap their last rewards... | |
 | 1814 - 310 lehte
....Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor'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 with celestial fire ; Hands that... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 lehte
...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 with celestial fire ; Hands that the... | |
 | 1822 - 468 lehte
...mind, per force believing itself mortal and dissoluble into the basest matter ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? But Lord Byron need not be informed, that there is a bad immortality as well as a good. He who burnt... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 lehte
...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 with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 622 lehte
...the cave of Machpelah , or light with a railt the hollow eye balls of decay ' ' Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death.' What was it, I ask, to Abraham that in Isaac his seed should be called children of faithful Abraham... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice scent : Not ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 lehte
...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 is ennobled by what our Author... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 lehte
...upon the cave of Machpelah, or light with a smile the hollow eye balls of decay ? * Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death i" iv.] TO ABRAHAM. What was it, I ask, to Abraham, that in Isaac his seed should be called children... | |
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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? 
