 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young; tea l-;.vui.i3n KJ-.ADKP.. Part •*. And 1 lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. r Epitaph. A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, Here... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1825 - 272 pages
...barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can roh a poor bird of its young ; And I tov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. 1 have heard her with sweetness unfold, How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...that plunder forbear ! For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness...youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his bumble birth. And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...Who can rob a poor bird of its young: •*And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness-fall from her tongue. Epitaph. Here rests his head upon...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 - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...bat as Mr. Mason observes, " without it, we have ou\y his morning walk and his noontide 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...a barbarous deed*. For he ne'er can be true', she averr'd'. Who can rob a poor bird of its young* : And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness...youth to fortune and to fame unknown*; Fair science frowri'd not on his humble birth', And melancholy mark'd him for her own*. Large was his bounty', and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...l)ir>; of its yoim . And I lovV ijbr the ilfcro, when ['heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. •v 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 Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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 his... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...Approach and read (for tliou 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...'tis a barbaious deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its youngj And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. •v Here rests his head upon t lie lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown Fair science... | |
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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... 
