 The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole,...  The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier]. - Page 87by Lyre - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 lehte
...life's mad career. Wild as the wave? Here pause — and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low. And stain'd his name. Reader, attend. — Whether thy... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1830 - 40 lehte
...March. 24th, 1830. p. 8. himself, sink deep into the.memory of every youthful votary of science. • The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him lou> • Jlnd stained his name. Reader attend ! Whether thy... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1830 - 370 lehte
...Let his epitaph, written by himself, sink deep into the memory of every youthful votary of science. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low JLnd stain' d his name. Reader attend ! Whether thy soul... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - 1832 - 292 lehte
...biographers cannot be disputed, that there was " a far better epitaph in the one he wrote for himself:" — " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name." The whole is surrounded by a palisade,... | |
 | 1838 - 448 lehte
...communication with the northern wizard at Abbotsford, and we bent over the restingplace of Burns. " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow. And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd hid name." " Bonnie Edinburgh" gave us pleasure,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 370 lehte
...life's mad career, Wild as the wave ; Here pause — and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn, and...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend — whether thy... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 lehte
...life's mad career, Wild as ihe wave ; Here pause — and thro' the starting tear,Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, Arid keenly felt the friendly elow, And softer flame. But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stnin'd... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 lehte
...wave; Here pause — and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhahitant helow, Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glovr, And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend—... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 lehte
...life's mad career, Wild as the wave ; Here pause— and, through the starting tear, Survey. this grave. The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him tow, And »tain'd his name ! Reader, attend — whether thyaoul... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 lehte
...Yet runs, himself, life's mad career, Wild as the wave; Here pause—and, thro' the starting tear, The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend—whether thy soul... | |
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