From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred... Albany Medical Annals - Page 3571900Full view - About this book
| Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentred all in selfLiving, shall forfeit fair renown ; And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. " There are yet many features of the autumn calculated... | |
| Esq. Henry MEAD - Patriotic poetry, English - 1839 - 36 pages
...Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentrate^ all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd and unsung." SCOTT. ?„• AMID the infinite variety of subjects... | |
| Esq. Henry Mead - 1839 - 38 pages
...Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentrated all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd and unsung." SCOTT. AMID the infinite variety of subjects which... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. NATURE MOURNING FOR POETS. Call it not vain — they... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. Vol. II.— T Oh Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet... | |
| Henry Stuart Foote - Mexico - 1841 - 416 pages
...The wretch, concentred all in self, Despite those titles, power and pelf, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung." The Anglo-American population of Texas, as a mass,... | |
| P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 pages
...those lilies, power, and pelf (2) , The wretch concentered all in self, Living (3), shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying , shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung (4). WALTER SCOTT. EVE'S ADIEU TO PARADISE. Must I... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...Despite those titles, pow'r, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic... | |
| 1851 - 592 pages
...emolument — the historian who breathes on his pages a lying spirit, ' Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying, shall go down, To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoored, and unsung.' Of misguided historic genius I shall submit but... | |
| Samuel Church - 1842 - 104 pages
...Despite his titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung." It was here that our eyes first opened upon the light... | |
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