 The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole,...  The Life and Times of Hugh Miller - Seite 260von Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 346 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 Seiten
...Young fancy's rays the hills adorning. but when addressing us from his grave in his epitaph, he says, The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low And stain'd his name. Reader,... | |
 | London city mission - 1840 - 620 Seiten
...life's mad career, Wild as the wave : Here pause, and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name. Reader,... | |
 | 1840 - 408 Seiten
...hopes of friends, and a tarnished name, as mementos of his undoubted genius. BIOGRAPHY. ROBERT BURNS. The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and wise to know. And keenly felt tbe friendly glow And softer ñame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low. And stain'd his name. Burn... | |
 | 1841 - 580 Seiten
...o'er which she held her wide command, -The valley of my dreams, was our own NATIVE LAND. t BURNS. " The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow. And softer flame. But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name !" A BAED'S... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1842 - 834 Seiten
...manliness which was the corner-stone of his character, he wrote a true inscription for his own grave : — The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn, and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless folly laid him low, And ttained his name. If, then,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 Seiten
...tear, Survey this grave. с Too. d BMhful. / (Her. t To submit tamcl?, to sneak. g To lamtnt, to mourn. The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and wise to know. And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name. Reader,... | |
 | 1902 - 874 Seiten
...himself life's mad career Wild as the wave? Here pause — and thro' the starting tear Survey this grave. The poor Inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame. But thoughtless follies laid him low And stain'd his name! Reader,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1844 - 474 Seiten
...mad career, Wild as the wave— Here pause—and through the starting tear, Survey this grave.— ' The poor inhabitant below. Was quick to learn, and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow. And softer flame ' No, Godfrey, I will repeat no more: the ' thoughtless folly' was... | |
 | 1844 - 742 Seiten
...grave: — The poor inhabitant below Was wise to learn and keen to know, And warmly felt the friendly glow And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low And stained his name. But in his day and generation he contributed by his writings in no inconsiderable degree to the happiness... | |
 | 1845 - 1038 Seiten
...errors, and unreservedly acknowledged them, as in the following lines: " The poor inhabitant below, \Vas quick to learn, and wise to know, And keenly felt...thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name." John London M'Adam, Esq.— This gentleman, the far-famed constructor and improver of public roads,... | |
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