 | Thomas Warton - 1753 - 168 pàgines
...The red-breaft loves to build and warble there, • And little footfteps lightly print the ground. THE EPITAPH. " Here refts his head upon the lap of...youth to fortune and to fame unknown : " Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, " And melancholy mark'd him for her own. " Large was his bounty, and... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1753 - 164 pàgines
...' The red-breaft loves to build and warble there, ' And little footfteps lightly print the ground. THE EPITAPH. " Here refts his head upon the lap of...youth to fortune and to fame unknown : " Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, " And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. " Large was his bounty, and... | |
 | John Hackett - 1757 - 306 pàgines
...; The Stroke of Death on him had later fell, Whom all Mankind efleem'd and lov'd fo well. S. DUCK. Here refts 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 markt him for her own. - • - », Large was his Bounty,... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pàgines
...; i The red-br^aft loves to build and warble there, ' And little foofteps lightly print the ground. The EPITAPH. ' Here refts his head upon the lap of...A youth to fortune and to fame unknown : • Fair fcience frown'd not on his humbte birth, ' And melancholy mark'd him for her own. • Large was his... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 308 pàgines
...gradu. Tu lege, namque potes, caelatum in marmore carmen, Quod juxta has vepres exhibet ifte lapis. THE EPITAPH. HERE refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair fcfence frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. • i » • Large... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pàgines
...; t The red-breaft loves to build and warble there, ' And little foofteps lightly print the ground. The EPITAPH. < Here refts his head upon the lap of...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,... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 312 pàgines
...lege,' namque potes, caelatum in marmore carmen, Quod juxta has vepres exhibet ifte lapis. EP ITHE 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. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Hugh Kelly - 1767 - 310 pàgines
...injurious to the perfpicuity of their elegant author. THEBABLE R. No, 55. In the epitaph we are told, 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.— Now for my own part,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pàgines
...fanul repofla Inter fpemque metumque conguiefcunt, TTE RE rejls his head upon the lap of Earth m A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown } Fair Science frown' d not on his hunble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 3»Large was his bounty, and his foul fmcere,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 140 pàgines
...Grav'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn. The EPITAPH. JT-wERE rejli hii bead upon the lap ef forth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown' d not on hii humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large . THE EPITAPH, Large wai bii bounty,... | |
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Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him born. ' Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, ' Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' The EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and. to Fame unknown. Fair Science... 
