 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,...fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frowned not ou his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." The Epitaph. HERE rests his head...was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense as largely send :— He gave to misery all he had — a tear ; He gained from heaven —... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...saw him borne: « Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, « Grav' d on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. » THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head...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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...path we saw him borne, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the layr 'Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. THE 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...can be true, she ayerr'd. And 1 lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tonguej 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 marked him for her own= Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...path we saw him borne, 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...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 F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...churchway-path we saw him borne : Approach, and read (for thou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Approach and read— for thou canst read — the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.1 1 kiea : So draw mankind in vain the vrai airs, Unformed, unfriended by those kindly caree Scieuce frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." The Epi'aph. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science...was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense as largely send : — He gave to misery all he had — a tear ; He gained from heaven—... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the layGraved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon...his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her i Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery... | |
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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 can'st read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon... 
