 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pàgines
...its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour'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 pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pàgines
...INSCRIPTIONS. 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pàgines
...its mansion call the fleeting breath ; Can Honour'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 prenant with celestial fire , Hands ,^that the rod of empire might have sway'd , Or... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pàgines
...its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour'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 pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pàgines
...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 rod of nr.-'re might have sway'd, Or wak'd... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pàgines
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour'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 pregnant with celestial fire : Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pàgines
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour'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 pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pàgines
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ; Can Honour'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 pregnant with celestial 6re; Hands that tlie rod of empire might have sway'd. Or wak'd... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pàgines
...its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour'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 pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pàgines
...Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour'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 pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or... | |
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But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. 
