Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from... Young. Churchill. Lloyd. Falconer. Thomson - Pàgina 207per Samuel Johnson - 1800Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1847 - 240 pàgines
...that they were emblematical of silence and death. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell securely laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Gray. They now, however, form the most ancient... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 pàgines
...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pàgines
...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. morn, MlMW-lillllt shed, , lining hnni, mi... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pàgines
...seci'et bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pàgines
...thus : " Beneath those rugged elms. that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell, forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." — Gray. This kind of stanza is well adapted to elegiac compositions, is generally... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pàgines
...reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap. Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built... | |
| 1848 - 808 pàgines
...yard — Benenth these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many я mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,... | |
| Robert Bolton - 1848 - 618 pàgines
...settlement of the village, contains numerous interments. "Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap," Each in his narrow cell forever laid, "The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. — Gray's Elegy. The following inscriptions are copied from the monuments Here lyeth... | |
| John Stoughton - 1848 - 356 pàgines
...of many generations. Round it spreads the old churchyard, with its grassy hillocks, beneath which, "Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Bordering that churchyard is another place of sepulture, which was never touched by... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 pàgines
...reign. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, — Each in his narrow cell forever laid, — The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care... | |
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