| Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1799 - 372 pages
...:— " Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath * Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ?' For if these things cannot prolong, for a moment, the life that now is, they will have no influence... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...founds. " Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to it's mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the. silent dust ? : . Or flattery sooth the dull, cold ear of Death ) } Storiedt — embossed with figures, representing some history of the deceased, as the Barberini... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
....• Can storied urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with relestial fire; Hands that the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...vault. The IBM I i 1 1 • anthem swejls the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to D ' Ѽj4 i ̯ 輖 ˑ$'- ; ~ ,(N \Z d6 x 3 t k7a_ Wצ A flatt'ry sootlj thu dull cold ear of death ? 20 BOOK I. IVrhaps in this neglected spot is laid Jionic... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...fretted vanlt, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor'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... | |
| John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...XI. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust ? Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death ? XII. Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 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 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... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...frettedyault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honor'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... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can story'd urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Orflatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of death? Perhaps, in this neglected spot is laid Some heart, once... | |
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