 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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...  Poems - Seite 156von Thomas Gray - 1778 - 158 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 Seiten
...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 frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. • Before Ibe Epitaph, Mr. Gray originally inserted a very beautiful stanza,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 Seiten
...on the stone beneath yon aged t horn . » THE EPITAPH. 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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soûl sincere; Heav'n did a recompence as largely... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A eed trem 08/ mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his sonl sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 Seiten
...I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. 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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere Heav'n did a recompense as largely... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 Seiten
...tiruv'tl 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 frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n Hid a recompense as largely... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 Seiten
...Part •*. And 1 lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. r Epitaph. A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, ' And melancholy marked him for her own. La^ge was his bounty,... | |
 | Mrs. Catherine George Ward Mason - 1825 - 976 Seiten
...his warm and unchangeable affection. . CHAPTER IV. " Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A man to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, But melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, And heaven did a... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 Seiten
...I heard Such tenderness-fall from her tongue. Epitaph. 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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heav'n did a recompense as largely... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 Seiten
...his morning walk and his noontide repose." THE EPITAPH*. 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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely... | |
 | 1826 - 310 Seiten
...Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' The Epitaph. HERE rests hip 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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heav'n did a recompense as largely... | |
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