Epitaphs, or, Church-yard gleanings, collected by Old Mortality, jun1875 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 19
Page 4
... wickers bound . Some rising fresh above the ground , Some level with their native clay ; What sleeping thousands wait the sound , Arise , ye dead , and come away ! " ERECTED to the Memory OF ROBERT PATERSON , THE Old PREFACE .
... wickers bound . Some rising fresh above the ground , Some level with their native clay ; What sleeping thousands wait the sound , Arise , ye dead , and come away ! " ERECTED to the Memory OF ROBERT PATERSON , THE Old PREFACE .
Page 5
Epitaphs Mortality (old, jun, pseud). ERECTED to the Memory OF ROBERT PATERSON , THE Old Mortality OF SIR WALTER SCOTT , Who was buried here , February , 1801 . Why seeks he with unwearied toil Through Death's dim walks to urge his way ...
Epitaphs Mortality (old, jun, pseud). ERECTED to the Memory OF ROBERT PATERSON , THE Old Mortality OF SIR WALTER SCOTT , Who was buried here , February , 1801 . Why seeks he with unwearied toil Through Death's dim walks to urge his way ...
Page 18
... Robert Trollop , That made these stones roll up ; When death took his soul up His body filled this hole up . Vicissim . - Approach and read , not with your hats on , For here lies Bailie William Watson . Here lies Tam Reid , Who was ...
... Robert Trollop , That made these stones roll up ; When death took his soul up His body filled this hole up . Vicissim . - Approach and read , not with your hats on , For here lies Bailie William Watson . Here lies Tam Reid , Who was ...
Page 30
... Robert Burrows , that's enough . In Romsey Abbey Church , on his parents , by Lord Palmerston : - To those who knew the tenour of their days ' Twere worse than useless to recount their praise ; To those by whom their virtues were ...
... Robert Burrows , that's enough . In Romsey Abbey Church , on his parents , by Lord Palmerston : - To those who knew the tenour of their days ' Twere worse than useless to recount their praise ; To those by whom their virtues were ...
Page 32
... Robert Wallis , Clerk of All - Hallows , King of Good Fellows , And maker of Bellows . He bellows did make till the day of his death , But he that made bellows could never make breath . In Haddington Churchyard : — Here lies within this ...
... Robert Wallis , Clerk of All - Hallows , King of Good Fellows , And maker of Bellows . He bellows did make till the day of his death , But he that made bellows could never make breath . In Haddington Churchyard : — Here lies within this ...
Contents
89 | |
90 | |
101 | |
105 | |
106 | |
108 | |
109 | |
114 | |
37 | |
38 | |
39 | |
43 | |
47 | |
53 | |
54 | |
62 | |
72 | |
81 | |
87 | |
117 | |
123 | |
124 | |
125 | |
126 | |
131 | |
132 | |
134 | |
156 | |
166 | |
Common terms and phrases
aged appear beneath this stone born buried called Cathedral cause Cemetery child Christ Church Churchyard clay dead dear death died doth dust earth erected eternal eyes faithful fame fate father follow friends gave God's gone grace grave hand happy hath head heart heaven honest hope husband interred James John June Kent killed kind King knew laid late lies the body lieth lived London Lord lost lyes March Mary meet memory mind monument mortal mother never o'er once pain parents parish pass peace poor praise Reader remains rest rise Robert sacred short sleep soon soul spirit stone sweet tear tell thee Thomas thou tomb took true truth turn unto virtue weep wife young
Popular passages
Page 170 - E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Page 12 - Dec. 11, 1756, immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison by the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, in consequence of which he registered his kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors. The grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings. But Theodore this moral learn'd ere dead : Fate pour'd its lessons on his living head, Bestow'da kingdom, and denied him bread.
Page 174 - IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MARINER, A native of Largo, in the county of Fife, Scotland, who lived on this island in complete solitude for four years and four months. He was landed from the Cinque Ports galley, 96 tons, 18 guns, AD 1704, and was taken off in the Duke, privateer, 12th February, 1709.
Page 105 - EPITAPH ON JOHN ADAMS, OF SOUTHWELL, A CARRIER, WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS. JOHN ADAMS lies here, of the parish of Southwell, A Carrier who carried his can to his mouth well : He carried so much, and he carried so fast, He could carry no more — so was carried at last ; For, the liquor he drank, being too much for one, He could not carry off, — so he's now carri-on.
Page 63 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 98 - Our life is but a Winter's day — Some only breakfast and away. Others to dinner stay and are full fed, The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day : Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Page 117 - Regiment of Foot, In different parts of Europe, And in the year 1745, fought under the command Of the Duke of Cumberland, At the Battle of Fontenoy, Where she received a Bayonet Wound in her arm. Her long life, which commenced in the...
Page 33 - Our life is but a winter's day, Some only breakfast and away, Others to dinner stay and are full fed. The oldest man but sups and goes to bed, Large is hia score who lingers out the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Page 170 - Witty above her sexe, but that's not all, Wise to Salvation was good Mistris Hall, Something of Shakespere was in that, but this Wholy of him with whom she's now in blisse. Then, passenger, ha'st ne're a teare, To weepe with her that wept with all? That wept, yet set herselfe to chere, Them up with comforts cordiall. Her Love shall live, her mercy spread, When thou hast ne're a teare to shed.
Page 153 - God that lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them in the grave ; He gives, and, — blessed be his name ! He takes but what he gave.