| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1036 trang
...refrs hit head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair Icience fruwn'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty and his foul fincere, Heaven did a reo'mperfc as largely fend; He gave to mifciy all he had, a tear; He gain'd... | |
| 1796 - 246 trang
...EPITAPH. HERE refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair fcience frown'd not on his humble birth. And melancholy mark'd him for her own, 8 Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heaven did a recompenfe as largely fend; He gave to mifery... | |
| 1797 - 350 trang
...* HERE refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair fcience frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd...own. ••',.' •!• Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere ; Heav'n did a recompence as largely fend j , He gake to mis'ry (all he had) a tear ;... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1798 - 130 trang
...on the ftone beneath yon' aged thorn."§ THE EPITAPH. tJERE refts his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science...humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 1zo Large was his bounty, and his foul fmcere ; Heav'n did a recompenfe as largely fend: He gave to... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 trang
...I heard Such tendernefs fall from her tongue. Efitapb. Here refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science...mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere; Heav'n did a recompenfe as largely fend : He gave to mis'ry all he had — a tear; He... | |
| British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 trang
...Grav'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn :" THE EPITAPH. HERE refts his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science...mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere ; Heav'n did a recompenfe as largely fend : He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear; He gain'd... | |
| Apollo - 1800 - 224 trang
...T-IERE refts his head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair fcience frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heaven did a recompence as largely fend : He gave to mifery all he had — a tear; He... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 542 trang
...reftt his head upon the lap of earth, \ A youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair Science frownM not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large waj his bounty, and his foul fmcere, Heav'n did a recompnce as largely fend : He gave to mis'ry, all... | |
| 1806 - 504 trang
...Epitaph at the end of his Elegy in a Country Church-yard. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science...humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. The Latin lines are. written in the margin of page 179 <Jf of William Burton's History of Leicestershire,... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 trang
...inquiring for the poet, here are his tomb and epitaph :— 1' Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. •' Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompense as... | |
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