 | Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...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 Science frown'd not on his humble Birth, And Melancholy mark'dhkn for her own. Large was his Bounty, and his Soul fm cere, Heav'n did a Recompence... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...to his critical fkill. 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 humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fmcere ; Heav'n did a recompence... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1785 - 568 pages
...beneath yon aged thorn." TNI 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 humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heav'n did a recompence... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH, TT ERE 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 mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heaven did a recompence... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1791 - 508 pages
...genius, and the malevolence of his heart, by the following Epitaph on a certain Poet: 1 Here refts his head upon the lap of earth, One nor to fortune...unknown ; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, ijrVnd fmooth-tongu'd Flau'ry mark'd him for her own. Large was his with — in this he was fincere... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...beneath yon aged thorn.'1 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 humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heav'n did a recompence... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...aged thorn,' THE TT ERE refls 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 foul fincere, Heav'n did a recompence... | |
 | 1793 - 542 pages
...Elegy in a Country Church-yard — " Here relts 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." The Latin lines are written in the margin of page 179, of Burton's... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...yon' aged thorn."§ THE EPITAPH. tJERE 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 mark'd him for her own. 1zo Large was his bounty, and his foul fmcere ; Heav'n did a recompenfe... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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 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 recompence... | |
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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... 
