 Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A 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 soul sincere...  Calendar - Page 143by University of Calcutta - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. âĒv Here rests his head upon t lie lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown Fair science...frown'd not on his humble birth, . > .â And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere Heaven did a recomnrnce as largely... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...'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 Science...frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven did a recompense as largely send.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...I heard Such tenderness fall from her tonguej Epitaph: Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own= Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven did a recompence as largely... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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 Science...frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heav'n did a recompence as largely send... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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 Science...frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompense as largely send... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." " Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A 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 soul sincere ;117 Heaven did a recompense as... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...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 science...frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send... | |
 | Friendly contributions - 1836 - 292 pages
...Hislop was a schoolmaster in a king's ship : I never saw him without thinking on Gray's lines : â " A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown, Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth." He died of consumption in his 24th year. Pours forth his pious counsels to the young, And dear ones... | |
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...fall. What shadows we are, â what shadows we pursue ! Here rests, his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science...frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. But in the harrowing recollections of that disastrous day, let me not be guilty of... | |
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