 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Approach and read— for thou canst read — the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.1 1 THE a : So draw mankind in vain the vrai airs, Unformed, unfriended by those kindly caree Scieuce frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...— Approach and read (for thou canst read) the layGraved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth...his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her i Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." The Epitaph. 30. HEBE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science...humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 31. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense as largely send : — He gave... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...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 ;117 Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to Mis'ry all he had— a tear ; He gain'd from... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 31. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense us largely send : — He gave to misery all he had — a tear"; He gained from heaven— 'twas all... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...which ripens for eternity. LESSON XII. The Epitaph. 1. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science...humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 2. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Approach and read' (for Hum cantt read') the lay-', 'Graved 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 science0 frowned not on his humble* birth', And melancholy marked him for her own'. Large was his bounty',... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...aged thorn.". T1ie Epitaph. 30. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and <o fame unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 31. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense as largely send : — He gave... | |
 | 1837 - 206 pages
...quite still, till the eggs hatch into little birds. Here rests hi.s head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science...humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. PICTURES AND STORIES FOR CHILDREN PART XI. BOSTON TH CARTER, THE FLOWER-GIRL. Among the other things... | |
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THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of. earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 
