...tribute of a sigh. XXL 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. XXII. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm...

...sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletler'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : Ami many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb forgetfuluess a prey. This pleasing anxious being t'er resign'd, On some fond breast the parting soul...

...universal practice of raising .Sepulchral Monuments, and js finely illustrated by the plaintive Gray : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; - Left tiie warm precincts of the cliearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'nng louk, behind ? The most simple...

...is much finer in Gray, and very different,. the cast of this passage is not unlike his well known " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd." As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, &c. If chance the radiant sun with farewell...

...tribute of a sigh. 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...forgetfulness a prey, . This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?...

...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by l.li' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That...anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts ot the cheerful day, Nor 1 cast one longing, ling'ring, look behind ? H 3 On some fond breast the parting...

...lately purchased in the burying-ground on the Calton. 9 Mr. Hume died at Edinburgh, August 25th, 1776. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" A monument on that airy elevated cemetery, which, on account of a magniiicent terrace now carried round...

...in his turn not to be overlooked as a trifler, or as a labourer about nothing, operose nihil agendo. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind I On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from...

...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt bj th' unklterM muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralists to die. / For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasiny, anxious being e'er resign'd,...

...is much finer in Gray, and very different, the cast of this passage is not unlike his well known Fof who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd. As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, &c. If chance the radiant sun with farewell...