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" Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon... "
The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ... - Page 184
by Lindley Murray - 1821 - 263 pages
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

1800 - 322 pages
...Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. " HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,...youth to fortune and to fame unknown; " Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, " And melancholy mark'd him for her own. " Large was his bounty, and...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young-* And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. In the third he mentions the common-places of amorous poetry with some address: 'Tis his with mock...
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Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...patron in the heavens, to enliven their prosperity, or to warm their hearts with gratitude and trust ! EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,...youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...a harharous deed. For he ne'er could he true, she averr'd, Who could roh a poor hird of its young: And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness uufyld, How that pity was due to — a dove; That it ever attended...
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The Works of Solomon Gessner: Translated from the German. With ..., Volume 1

Salomon Gessner - 1805 - 332 pages
...a barbarous deed. For lie ne'er could be true she averr'd, That could rob a poor bird of its young: And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove; That it ever attended the bold,...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, ' Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' Ihe EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of Earth...Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his...
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Poëmes ou morceaux détachés de differens auteurs anglais, traduits en vers ...

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...Approach, and read, for thou canst read, the lay » Grav'd on the stone, beneath yon aged thorn. » THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth...youth, to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. K Large was his bounty, and...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

1806 - 330 pages
...Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. " HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,...youth to fortune and to fame unknown; " Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, " And melancholy mark'd him for her own. " Large was his bounty, and...
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The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier].

Lyre - 1806 - 204 pages
...a barbarous deed !' For he ne'er could be true, she ave^d, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have hoard her with sweetness unfold How that Pity was due to a dove: That it ever attended the bold...
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The cabinet of poetry, containing the best entire pieces in the works of the ...

Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...barbarous deed. • For he ne'er coulJ be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to— a dove : That ever attended the...
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