 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...inscription was written by the Rev. William Mason, and is as follows : — " Died July 30, 1771, aged 54. No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns ; To Britain...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of GRAY." In the churchyard of St. Giles' s-in-the-Fields, London, is a monument erected to GEORGE CHAPMAN, the... | |
 | T P Grinsted - 1859 - 342 pages
...tomb erected there to Gray's memory. We may here give its inscription : — July 30, 1771. Aged 54. No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns ; To Britain...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." The poet, however, does not repose in that favoured transept, having himself selected the secluded... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1861 - 386 pages
...erected in memory of Gray, and upon it is this inscription : " No more the Grecian Muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." • We looked everywhere to see Byron's grave—but looked in vain. Then we remembered how Macaulay... | |
 | William Burns (of Glasgow.) - 1861 - 162 pages
...even on the grave of the POET GRAY, we find these lines: — " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns, To BRITAIN let the nations homage pay! She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." In short, in Westminster Abbey, and upon those enduring memorials reared by friends or their country... | |
 | Henry Watkins Allen - 1861 - 270 pages
...more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a nation's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." •4 I The chapel of Henry VII. is the most gorgeous. It is filled with ancient tombs of rare workmanship.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1862 - 358 pages
...it is as much applicable to a monument to Milton, as to Gray: " No more the Grecian muse imrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay; She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." his works,* must still hold a very distinguished rank among the English poets, for the excellence of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 pages
...: " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." To quote Mackintosh once more, he says, " Of the two grand attributes of the Ode, Dryden had displayed... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 pages
...: " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns; To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." To quote Mackintosh once more, he says, " Of the two grand attributes of the Ode, Dryden had displayed... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 pages
...— " No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pa; ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." To quote Mackintosh once more, he says, " Of the two grand attributes of the Ode, Un den had displayed... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 pages
...(There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God. T. Gray. ON GRAY.™ No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. Mason. and " Caractacus,"... | |
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No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. 
