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 recompense as largely send:... Poems - Página 256de Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 277 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 páginas
...He gave to Mis'ry, all he had, a tear, He gain'd from Heav'n('twas all he wiuYd)aFricnd. No forther feek his merits to difclofe, Or draw his frailties from their dread ahode, THE PROGRESS OF POESY, A PINDARIC ODE. I. i. AwAKE, ./Eolianlyre, awake, And give to Rapture... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 páginas
...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 from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heav'n did a recompense as largely send : He gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear ; He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wiah'd) a friend. NO further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 páginas
...was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heav'n did a recompense as largely send : He gave to mis'ry all he had — a tear ; He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he \vish:d) a friend, No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,... | |
| John Young - 1810 - 432 páginas
...was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heav'n did a recompence as largely send : He gave to misery all he had, — a tear ; He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a Friend. XXX. XXXII. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1811 - 286 páginas
...as it flies : -, " Life's a fliort fummer — man a flower ; He dies — Alas ! how foon he dies ! No farther feek his merits to difclofe, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, ^t (There they alike in trembling hope repofe,) Y The bofom of his Father and his God. Joy anil... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 páginas
...Larqe 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 from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend . JNTo farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread... | |
| Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 páginas
...own was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heav'n did a recompense as largely send; He gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear, He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 páginas
...Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heav'n did a recompenfe as largely lend : He gave to MiScry all he had, a tear ; He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas...abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repofe,) The bolbm of his Father and his God. GRAY. SECTION III. The deferted .village. SWEET Auburn ! loveliett... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 páginas
...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 from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) — a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, t Or draw his frailties from their dread... | |
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