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... Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes - Page 300redigeeritud poolt - 1851Full view - About this book
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 lehte
...we saw him borne, — 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...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,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 lehte
...; 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...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 - 1821 - 278 lehte
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 lehte
...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... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 lehte
...we saw him borne, — 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...Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. • Before Ibe Epitaph, Mr.... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 lehte
...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... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 lehte
...we saw him borne. " 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...Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown d not on his humble birth , And Melancholy mark'dhimfor her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath 8 / frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 lehte
...Approach and read (for thon canst rend] thé lay, « Grav' d on the stone beneath yon aged t horn . » 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 lehte
...cannot determine. This thought, which is found in both poems, is wrought up unquestionably to much THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth...humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 120 Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompence as largely send : greater perfection... | |
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