 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...unknown ; Fair science frovvn'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Larsje was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a...send : He gave to misery all he had — a tear; He gain'd from Heav'n, ('twas all he wish'd)a friend. No further seek his meHis to disclose, Or draw his... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pages
...we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH.' Here rests his head...earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair scienee frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy inark'd him tor her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 pages
...; but as Mr. Mason observes, " without it, we have only his morning walk and his noon-tide repose." THE EPITAPH.* Here rests his head upon the lap of...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...poor bird of its young : AnJ 1 lov'd her the more, when 1 heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. . • Here rests his head upon the lap of...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Sucli tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. Here rests, his head upon the lap of earth,...youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on Lis humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' THE EPITAPH* HERE rests his head...Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. • Before Ibe Epitaph, Mr.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...that plunder forbear ! And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. 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 marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...we saw him borne. " Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head...Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown d not on his humble birth , And Melancholy mark'dhimfor her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath 8 / frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...Approach and read (for thon canst rend] thé lay, « Grav' d on the stone beneath yon aged t horn . » 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 his... | |
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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 can'st read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon... 
