...ease, Myself alone, I seek to please." (1) So Byron over his dog employs a suicidal satire : — " To mark a friend's remains, these stones arise : I never knew but one — and here he lies." The Man, his pert conceit, derides, And thus the useless coxcomb, chides : " Hence from that peach,...

...last generation most children knew by heart. In how different a spirit is Byron's epitaph on his dog ! To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies. 18 A friend, a book, the stealing hours secure, And mark them down for wisdom. — Thomson. Autumn,...

...last generation most children knew by heart. In how different a spirit is Byron's epitaph on his dog ! To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies. 18 A friend, a book, the stealing hours secure, Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad : — Can...

...for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — -and here he lies." Newstead Abbey, November 30, 1808. TO A LADY, ON BEING ASKED MY REASON FOR QUITTING ENGLAND IN THE...

...for shame. Ye, who perchance behold tin's simple urn, Pass on — it honors none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies." By a will which his lordship executed in 1811, lie directed that his own body should be buried in a...

...last generation most children knew by heart. In how different a spirit is Byron's epitaph on his dog ! "To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies." 855. Friends: " A friend, a book, the stealing hours secnre, And mark them down for wisdom." Thomson....

...candle*was burning on the mantel. It had become dark. Just as I came to the end of the poem, — " To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies," — my foot slipped down the jamb, and struck a dog, who was lying beneath. The dog sprang up, howled,...

...conclusion : "" Ye who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on, it honours none you wish to mourn ; To mark a friend's remains these stones arise : I never knew but one — and here he lies." The prose epitaph, not so widely known, may perhaps be quoted more fully : " Near this spot are deposited...

...blush for shame. Ye who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on—it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise,— I never knew but one, and here he lies." G-ENTLEMEN who derive their amusements chiefly from field sports should pay particular attention to...

...for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise; I never knew but one, — and here he lies. NEWSTEAD ABBEY, November 30, 1808. TO TIME. TIME! on whose arbitrary wing The varying hours must flag...