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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 288
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' Ihe EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science...mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere. Heaven did a recompence as largely send ; He gave to Mis'ry, all he had, a tear, Hegain'd...
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Poëmes ou morceaux détachés de differens auteurs anglais, traduits en vers ...

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...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...humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. K Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heav'n did a recompence as largely send : He gave to...
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The Life of Thomas Dermody: Interspersed with Pieces of Original ..., Volume 1

James Grant Raymond - 1806 - 304 pages
...that she had found some candles in Dermody's room, * " Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science...his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her owij." behind his 'trunk. In consequence, I now thought it prudent to speak to him explicitly on the...
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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Historical ..., Volume 1

1806 - 284 pages
...By Pope. BY GRAY. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unkown ; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And...mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heav'n did a recompence as largely send : -He gave to Mis'ry — 'twas all he had —...
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A collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, Volume 1

Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...concert make. BY GRAY. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unkown ; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And...mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heav'n did a recoinpence as largely send : He gave to Mis'ry — 'twas all he had —...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...the stone beneath you aged thornt." THE EPITAPH. TTERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, -^--^- A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair science...not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him foi her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heav'n did a recompense as largely send: He...
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The life of Thomas Dermody, Volume 1

James Grant Raymond - 1806 - 300 pages
...that she had found some candles in Dermody's room, * *' 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 niarfc'd him for her own." behind his trunk. In consequence, I now thought it prudent to speak to him...
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The Life of Thomas Dermody: Interspersed with Pieces of Original ..., Volume 1

James Grant Raymond - 1806 - 306 pages
...Dermody's room, * " Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown j Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own." behind his trunk. In consequence, I now thought it prudent to speak to him explicitly on the danger...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' THE EPIT4PH. XlERE rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science...mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompence as largely send : He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear, He gain'd...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1807 - 1106 pages
...himself from me. But, however he might neglect my ad• ' Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science...humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own,' vice» I determined, before leaving Dublin, to do him every service in my power. For this purpose I...
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