 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pagine
...preservation : R 2 Fair science frown'd not on his bumble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. 120 Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompence as largely send : He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pagine
...Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty and his soul sincere ; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had— a tear ; He gain'd from Heaven, 'twas all he wish'd, a Friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pagine
...divine almost equals the moderu poet. Lanre was his bounty ami his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send, He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a FRIENI) ! No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pagine
...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, Heaven...largely send : He gave to Misery all he had, a tear ; He gain'd from Heaven ('t was all he wish'd) a friend. No further seek his merits to disclose, . Or draw... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pagine
...unknown ; Fair science frovvn'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Larsje was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a...send : He gave to misery all he had — a tear; He gain'd from Heav'n, ('twas all he wish'd)a friend. No further seek his meHis to disclose, Or draw his... | |
 | 1821 - 766 pagine
...Byron's Plagiarisms. 354 Byron. - Than give me all I ever asked — a tear. Corsair, 1, 363. Gray. — He gave to misery all he had — a tear, He gained from heaven, 'twas all he imshed —a friend.— Elegy. Byron. What fruita of fragrance blush on every tree. C. ff.c.xv. Thomson.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pagine
...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; Heaven...send; He gave to misery all he had — a tear: He gain'd from Heav'n, ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No further seek his merits 'to disclose, Or draw... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pagine
...unseen are showers of violets found; Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompense as largely send : He gave to Misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pagine
...are showers of violets found ; Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his sonl sincere, Heaven did a recompense the vari H8/ gaiu'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw... | |
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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. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as... 
