| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...bonre, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, 'Grav'don tiie stone beneath yon aged torn." 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. targe was his bounty, and his... | |
| English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...to fortune and to feme unknown ; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul...Heaven did a recompense as largely send. He gave to mis'ry all he had — a tear ; He gain'd from heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 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 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - Children - 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - Children - 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...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 upon the lap of 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,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...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 soul sincere, Heaven did a recompence as largely send : He gave to Misery all he had, a tear ; He gain'd from Heaven ('t was all... | |
| Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame 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 recompence as largely send : He gave to misery... | |
| English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...frown'd not on his hurqble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and hie soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense as largely send. He gave to mis'ry all he had — a tear ; He gain'd from heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 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... | |
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