 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 31. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense us largely send : — He gave to misery all he had — a tear"; He gained from heaven— 'twas all... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Here rests his head upon the lap of earth', A youth to fortune','' and to fame unknown'; Fair science0 frowned not on his humble* birth', And melancholy...misery all he had' — a tear\ He gained from heaven' ('twas all he wished') a friend'. No farther seek his merits to disclose', Or draw his frailties from... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...which ripens for eternity. LESSON XII. The Epitaph. 1. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science...humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 2. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...aged thorn.". T1ie Epitaph. 30. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and <o fame unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 31. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere : Heaven did a recompense as largely send : — He gave... | |
 | Claude J. Summers - English literature - 1992 - 234 pages
...statement of this "coming out" resides in the epitaph itself: 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 recompcnce as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all... | |
 | Richard S. Wheeler - Fiction - 1992 - 360 pages
...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: He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear, He gained from Heav'n... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...peasantry, and as a peasant in relation to the ruling class: Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science...humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. (117-20) Where, after all, does this youth come from, if he ends up in the country churchyard? The... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...一 要的作品。 全詩共三+ 二節， 一百r . 十八行， 現選錄首二節 及末三節。 Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from... | |
 | Francis Bulhof - Authors, Dutch - 1993 - 260 pages
...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: He gave to Mis'ry all hè had, a tear, He gain'd from Heav'n... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thom." THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science...humble birth. And Melancholy marked him for her own. 120 Large was his bounty and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to... | |
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THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. 
