 Near this spot Are deposited the Remains Of one Who Possessed Beauty Without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man Without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning flattery If inscribed over Human...  The Green Bag - Page 3971904Full view - About this book
 | England - 1853 - 420 pages
...conspicuous ornament in the garden of Newstead is the monument to the poet's favourite dog Boatswain. " Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who...a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey, Nov. 18, 1808." After this inscription... | |
 | England - 1853 - 428 pages
...conspicuous ornament in the garden of Newstead is the monument to the poet's favourite dog Boatswain. ' • Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who...without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vice*. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just... | |
 | England - 1853 - 422 pages
...conspicuous ornament in the garden of Newstead is the monument to the poet's favourite dog Boatswain. " Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who...Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human ashes, > Is but a just tribute... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...be found among his poems, and the following is the inscription by which they are introduced : — " Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who...a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Nowstead Abbey, November 18, 1808. In his original... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fugitive slaves - 1855 - 338 pages
...the memory of some of the Byrons ; but, on drawing near to it, we read the following inscription : *' Near this spot are deposited the Remains of one who...a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog, who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, and died at Ncwstead Abbey, NOT. 18, 1808. " When some proud... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...a conspicuous ornament in the garden of Newstead. A prose inscription precedes the verses : — ' ' Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who...a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey, Nov. 18, 1808." Lord Byron thus... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1857 - 342 pages
...the Egyptian Dojrstar, has proved himself a friend to that race which Byron describes as " possessing beauty without vanity, strength without insolence,...ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices." The inscription might run as follows. We give it cursorily : — " Canis habebat suum diem." " Hoc... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 804 pages
...entering farther. We cannot altogether ascribe to him the character which Byron gave to his dog — " strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices :" but not even the large hound who lies at our side, looking up with intelligent soft brown eyes,... | |
 | American essays - 1893 - 958 pages
...sentimental exaggeration of Byron's when he wrote of his dog, Boatswain, in the famous epitaph : " Here lies one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, — all the virtues of man without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed... | |
 | Periodicals - 1881 - 588 pages
...— and here he lies." The prose epitaph, not so widely known, may perhaps be quoted more fully : " Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who...just tribute to the memory of — Boatswain, a dog." No man who went not " in and out " with his dog could have written ' The Twa Dogs.' The poem is, first... | |
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