A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern, with an Emblematical Frontispiece ...G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1822 - 320 páginas |
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... beauty , died in the 23d year of her age , 1739 . Thy reliques Rowe ! to this sad shrine we trust , And near thy Shakspeare place thy honor'd bust . Oh ! next him skill'd to draw the tender tear , For never heart felt passion more ...
... beauty , died in the 23d year of her age , 1739 . Thy reliques Rowe ! to this sad shrine we trust , And near thy Shakspeare place thy honor'd bust . Oh ! next him skill'd to draw the tender tear , For never heart felt passion more ...
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... beauty , strength , or what excelling parts , Of mind and body , letters , arms and worth , His eighteen years , beyond his years , brought forth ; Then stand and read thyself within this glass , How soon these perish , and thyself may ...
... beauty , strength , or what excelling parts , Of mind and body , letters , arms and worth , His eighteen years , beyond his years , brought forth ; Then stand and read thyself within this glass , How soon these perish , and thyself may ...
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... beauty and wit , without vice or vanity , And cultivated the arts without affectation , She was devout , though without bigotry to any sect And was without prejudice to any party ; Tho ' the wife of a minister whose power she esteemed ...
... beauty and wit , without vice or vanity , And cultivated the arts without affectation , She was devout , though without bigotry to any sect And was without prejudice to any party ; Tho ' the wife of a minister whose power she esteemed ...
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... beauty , wit , and social sense , To meet an early doom ; How soon the purest soul is fled To join the visionary dead , And share the silent tomb . Fond man , thy vain complaints give o'er , Frail as the blossom of an hour , Thy ...
... beauty , wit , and social sense , To meet an early doom ; How soon the purest soul is fled To join the visionary dead , And share the silent tomb . Fond man , thy vain complaints give o'er , Frail as the blossom of an hour , Thy ...
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... life's dearest ties , Tho ' in this grave his soul's companion lies ; She whose mild virtues grac'd his earthly dome , He hopes will bless him in a happier home . ON MISS ELIZA WELTSE , Aged 15 . In beauty's 102 Hammersmith Church-yard. ...
... life's dearest ties , Tho ' in this grave his soul's companion lies ; She whose mild virtues grac'd his earthly dome , He hopes will bless him in a happier home . ON MISS ELIZA WELTSE , Aged 15 . In beauty's 102 Hammersmith Church-yard. ...
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Términos y frases comunes
aged Arthuret beauty Beneath this stone Bermondsey blessed blest bliss bloom body born Brampton breath buried Captain Carlisle Catherine Howard CHARLES Christ Church Church-yard daughter dead dear death Deptford died doth Dumfries dust Earl earth Edward EDWARD RIOU epitaph erected eternal eye of Providence faith fame father flow'r following Inscription George grace grave grief hath heart Heav'n Heav'nly Heworth honor hope humble husband INFANT James King King of Scotland Kirklinton lamented LAMONBY lies liv'd live Lord lov'd marble Mary MEMORY OF JOHN monument mortal mourn ne'er Nether Denton North Shields Northallerton o'er parish peace praise Queen Reader rest RICHARD ROBERT ROBERT MOSSE sacred SAMUEL BARRINGTON SARAH Saviour's shine sigh skies sleep sorrows soul spirit Stepney tear tender thee thine THOMAS thou thro tomb virtue virtuous weep Westminster Abbey wife WILLIAM worms youth
Pasajes populares
Página 67 - Why do we mourn departing friends Or shake at death's alarms? 'tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms.
Página 253 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff.
Página 47 - HEAR what the voice from heaven proclaims, For all the pious dead, Sweet is the savour of their names, And soft their sleeping bed. 2 They die in Jesus and are bless'd ; How kind their slumbers are ! From sufferings and from sins released, And freed from every snare.
Página 215 - JLjO ! where this silent Marble weeps, A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps : A Heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful Virtues lov'd to dwell. Affection warm, and faith sincere, • And soft humanity were there.
Página 35 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London...
Página 246 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Página 214 - Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died.
Página 251 - EPITAPH ON CHARLES II. Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
Página 217 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 236 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.