 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...path we saw him borne : Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, tiruv'tl 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. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...path we saw him borne. Approaeh and read (for thou eanst read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath e love of false and eruel man. With sweetest milk,...first I it at mine own fingers nursed ; And as it grew seienee frown'd not on his humble birth, And melaneholy mark 'il him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...poor bird of its young : 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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...; bat as Mr. Mason observes, " without it, we have ou\y his morning walk and his noontide 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 - 1826 - 286 pages
...bird of its young: •*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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...we saw him borne. " Approach and read (for tliou 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. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...we saw him borne: ' Approach and read (for thou canst 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. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 pages
...rests his head upon t lie lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, . > .„ And melancholy marked...was his bounty, and his soul sincere Heaven did a recomnrnce as largely send; Me 'riip to miserv all he had — a tear; H! gain°dTomyHeav'n, ('twas... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...bird of its young* : 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 frowri'd not on his humble birth', And melancholy mark'd him for her own*. Large was his bounty', and... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pages
...found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,...was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery all he had, a tear ; He gained from Heaven ('twas all... | |
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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... 
