 | John Ely - Readers - 1817 - 124 pages
...a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she avcrr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young 5 And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tougue, I have heard her will) sweetness unfold. How that pity .was due to a dove: That it ever attended... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...born. 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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...bonre, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, 'Grav'don tiie stone beneath yon aged torn." 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. targe was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...'tis a barbarov.s deed. For he ne'er can be true, sh- ave«*d, Who can rob a poor bird .jf 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 dut to a dove; , , That it ever attended... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...deed : For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I loved 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Sucli tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. Here rests,...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...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 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 - English poetry - 1821 - 196 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 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who would 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... | |
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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... 
