 | 1809 - 402 pagine
...: [Isy, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the. Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'* THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,...Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown 'd not on bis humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him fur her own. Large was bis bounty, and... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pagine
...Criticism chooses to decline the examination, unwilling to shew eagerness to condemn 1 There, scatter^ oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. him, who has already condemned himself. For the discontinuance of it in the after-editions, Mason has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pagine
...liim Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of L'arth,...unknown, Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, Aud Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere. Heaven did a recompense... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pagine
...him Appro'ich and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Crav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of liarth,...youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair Science ftro^n'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy inark'd him for her own. Largo was his bounty, and... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pagine
...thro' the church-way path we saw him borne; " Approach and read (forthou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. " There scatter'd...print the ground." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head uponthe lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown' d not on his humble... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pagine
...poor bird of itsyoorig'; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such. tenderness fall from her toogae. Epitaph, Here rests his head upon the lap of eai'th,...on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for l»er own. Large \vas his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Ileav'n did :rrccompea«e as largely scud... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pagine
...Oft as the woodlark pip'd her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun : — " And, " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ! — " though almost unobjectionable* in themselves, and indeed very beautiful, Milton engages men... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 pagine
...in this place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By...little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " The Editor of the present edition of the Poet, has ventured to recall into the Elegy, one stanza (the fourth)... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pagine
...themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of ih<> year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " into the body of the Elegy. It is acknowledged by Mason and others, to be equal to any in the poem... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pagine
...poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Sucli tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. Here rests, his head upon the lap of earth,...and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on Lis humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere... | |
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Another came; nor yet beside the rill. Nor up the 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... 
