Blest be the great ! for those they take away, And those they left me; for they left me Gay : Left me to see neglected genius bloom, 'Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping... Literary and Historical Memorials of London - Page 420by John Heneage Jesse - 1847Full view - About this book
| John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...by dunce be whistled oif my hands ! Blcss'd be the great 1 for those they take away, 255 And those they left me — for they left me Gay; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb: Ofal! thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queesnb'ry weeping o'er... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...by dunce be whistled off my hands ! Bless'd be the great ! for these they take away, 255 And those they left me — for they left me Gay ; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queensb'ry weeping o'er... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...when the Characteristics will be forgotten. 23. Blest be the Great for those they take away, And those they left me ; for they left me GAY ; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb. Of all thy blameless life, the sole return My verse, and Queensb'ry weeping o'er... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Characteristics will be forotten. 23. Blest be the Great for those they take away, And those they left roe ; for they left me GAY ; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb. Of all thy blameless life, the sole return My verse, and Queensb'ry weeping o'er... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...by dunce he whistled off my hands ! Bless'd he the great ! for those they take away, .855 And those they left me — for they left me Gay: Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queensherry weeping o'er... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...May Dunce by Dunce lie whistled off my hands ! Blest he the great for those they take away, And those they left me, for they left me Gay; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return, My verse and Uueensb'ry weeping o'er... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...Dunce by Dunce be whistled oft my hands! Blesi be the great for I Hose they takeaway, And those tltey years, l.'seless, unseen, as lamps in sepuiclrres ; Like eastern kings, a lazy state the it'll it on iiis tomb: Of all thy. blameless life the sole return, My Verso and Oueenyb'ry weeping... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands ! Blest be the great ! for those they take away, And those they left me ; for they left me Gay : Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb: Of all thy blameless life the sole rettirn My verse, and Qucensberry weeping o'er... | |
| 1810 - 570 pages
...with all the pathetic sensibility of the tenderest friendship, in strains of supreme excellence: •" They left me GAY ; Left me to see neglected Genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb ; My verse, and QJJEENSB'RY weeping o'er thy urn !" ' Of all thy blameless life... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands \ Bless'd be the great, for those they take away, 255 And those they left me ; for they left me GAY ; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on -his tomb : . , Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and QUEENSB'RY weeping... | |
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