 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
 | George Eric Mackay - 1876 - 132 pages
...and buried him at Newstead Abbey, giving him a monument with the following strange 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 Newstead Abbey, November 18, 1808. " Lord Byron... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1876 - 478 pages
...Vexelerere mod Aagerrenter; hvorvidt dette var en Følge af Byrons egen Ødselhed eller hidrørte fra hans Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without...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. ' Byron glemmer... | |
 | John Robert Kippax - Epitaphs - 1877 - 238 pages
...rhyme, When that this stone shall moulder'd be by time. Byron's inscription on the monument ot'liis dog: Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who...vices. This praise which would be unmeaning flattery Is but a just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, a dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pages
...lies ;" — and the inscription on the monument that still remains in the gardens of Newstead — 3* " 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, Jfovember 18, 1808." On January... | |
 | John Nichol - Poets, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...he lies ; — and the inscription on the monument that still remains in the gardens of Newstead, — 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, November 18, 1808. On January... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 232 pages
...were to bury him in the same grave when he died. Over the dog's grave Byron placed these lines : ' Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who...insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of a man without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes,... | |
 | John Nichol - Poets, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...inscription on the monument that still remains in the gardens of Newstead — " Near this spot Arc deposited the remains of one Who possessed Beauty...without Ferocity, And all the virtues of Man without hig Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...Here 'sa heart for every fate. A monument in the garden of Newstead Abbey bears Byron's inscription : Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanitv, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man without his... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1881 - 418 pages
...order to give Boatswain an opportunity of dragging him out. The prose epitaph of this dog runs thus : " Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who...just tribute to the memory of— Boatswain, a dog." INFINITE MERCY. NOR the greatness of the crime, Nor the shortness of the time, Nor death's agony extreme,... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 884 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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