 | 1800 - Počet stránok 322
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - Počet stránok 714
...a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young-* And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. In the third he mentions the common-places of amorous poetry with some address: 'Tis his with mock... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - Počet stránok 72
...patron in the heavens, to enliven their prosperity, or to warm their hearts with gratitude and trust ! 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... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - Počet stránok 416
...a harharous deed. For he ne'er could he true, she averr'd, Who could roh a poor hird of its young: And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness uufyld, How that pity was due to — a dove; That it ever attended... | |
 | Salomon Gessner - 1805 - Počet stránok 332
...a barbarous deed. For lie ne'er could be true she averr'd, That could rob a poor bird of its young: And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove; That it ever attended the bold,... | |
 | 1806 - Počet stránok 408
...Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, ' Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' Ihe 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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - Počet stránok 456
...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. K Large was his bounty, and... | |
 | 1806 - Počet stránok 330
...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... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - Počet stránok 204
...a barbarous deed !' For he ne'er could be true, she ave^d, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have hoard her with sweetness unfold How that Pity was due to a dove: That it ever attended the bold... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - Počet stránok 524
...barbarous deed. • For he ne'er coulJ be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to— a dove : That ever attended the... | |
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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 canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon... 
