 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 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,...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... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...[Isy, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the. 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 bis humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him fur her own. Large was bis bounty, and... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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. I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to— a dove ; That it ever attended the... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 680 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,...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... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, " Grav'd on his 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. XXXI. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...a harharous deed. For he ne'er could he true, she averr'd, Who would roh a poor hird of its young: And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. 1 hare heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to—a dove: That it ever attended the... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...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. J I have heard her with sweetness unfold '. How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
