 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th" unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic Moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...Gray, in his beautiful and mischievous elegy, thus tells, indeed, of the unlettered muse : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. But tliis is not true. Holy texts are % rarely discoverable in cemeteries ; and, even when found, they... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 148 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletlcr'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. ' : " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey» This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse. The place of fame, and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resiga'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...names , their years , spelt by th' unletler'd Muse , The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews , That teach, the rustic moralist to die. For -who, to dumb foreetfulness a prey, TI • i • T • i • ii ims pleasing anxious being e er... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt hy th' uuletter'd Mu«» The place of Fame and Elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumh forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious heing e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 222 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Their name, their years, spelt by th* unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That 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... | |
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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. 
