| Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...homo. Approach and read, (for thou canst read,) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,...youth, to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...church-way pa'th/ we saw him bor'ne — " Approa'ch, and re'ad (for tho"u-canst-read) the la'y, " 'Grav'ed on the st'one/ beneath yon a'ged tho'rn." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his hea'd/ upon the la'p of ear'th, A you'th to for tune/ and to fa'me unkno'wn. Fair Sci'ence frow'ned not/ on his humble bir'th... | |
| Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...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 canst read,) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." EPITAPH. Here rests his head npon the lap of earth, A... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...yet beside the rill, XXVIII. I " The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, XXIX. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. [" There scattered3 oft, the earliest of the year, By hands... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...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 canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. 130 YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. here scattered oft, the earliest... | |
| Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...thro' the church-way path we saw him home. Approach and read, for thou canst read, the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH....youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty and his... | |
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...Another came, nor yet beside the rill, 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way 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 upon the lap of Earth... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...bome. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thom." THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth...youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth. And Melancholy marked him for her own. 120 Large was his bounty and... | |
| William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow though the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth... | |
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