 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 402 pages
...Grav'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn. The EPITAPH. TJERE refts hit head upon the lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown ; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble hirth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her owa. Large 'was his fostafy, and his foul Jlnctre,, Heav'n... | |
 | Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...fad Array ' Slow through the Church-way Path we faw him borne, ' Approach and read ( for thou can'ft read ) the Lay, ' Grav'd on the Stone beneath yon aged Thorn.' The EPITAP Jf. HERE refts his Head upon the Lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown, Fair... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...'•Grav'd on tht-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 frown'd not on his hirmble birth, , And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Literature - 1789 - 454 pages
...„Grav'd on the (bone beneath yon aged thorn I" THE EPITAPH. Here reib 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 tnark'd hi;n for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heav'n... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...the lawn, nor at the wood was he; " The next with dirges due in sad array " Slow thro' the church-way path we saw " him borne. " Approach and read (for...on the stone beneath yon aged " thorn." THE EPITAPH [5]. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...the lawn, nor at the wood was he; " The next with dirges due in sad array " Slow thro' the church-way path we saw " him borne, " Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the "lay THE EPITAPH [45]. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown:... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...the lawn, nor at the wood, was he. The next with dirges due, in sad array, Slow thro' the ohurch-way path we saw him borne; Approach, and read (for thou...lay, Grav'd on the stone, beneath yon aged thorn. Here the words thou canst, are emphatical, as they are evidently opposed to / cannot, which are understood... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...walk, and his Noontide repose." " The next with dirges due in sad array " Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him " borne, • * Approach and read (for...on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH [45]. Here rests his head upon the !ap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown i • Fair... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...in sad array, ' Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne : ' Approacli and read (for tho« canst read) the lay, ' Grav'd on the stone , beneath yon aged thorn.. ' The Epitaph. JJ ERS rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown: Fair Science fro-wn'd... | |
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The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. 
