 | John Hackett - 1757 - 306 pages
...well. . | S. DUCK. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble Birth, And Melancholy markt him for her own. Here refts his Head upon the Lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown; - • - », Large was his Bounty, and his Soul fincere; Heav'n did a Recompence as... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...read (for thou can'ft read) the lay, ' Giav'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn. H The EPITAP M. 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 o-wn. Large was his bounty, and... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pages
...read) the lay, ' Gi av'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn. The EPITAPH. TTE RE rejls his head upon the lap of Earth, •*- A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown, Fair Science frcwn'd not on his humble hirtht And Melancholy mark' d him for her own. Large ivas his bounty, and... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 308 pages
...gradu. Tu lege, namque potes, caelatum in marmore carmen, Quod juxta has vepres exhibet ifte lapis. THE EPITAPH. HERE refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair fcfence frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. • i » • Large... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...; i The red-br^aft loves to build and warble there, ' And little foofteps lightly print the ground. The EPITAPH. ' Here refts his head upon the lap of...A youth to fortune and to fame unknown : • Fair fcience frown'd not on his humbte birth, ' And melancholy mark'd him for her own. • Large was his... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 312 pages
...gradu. Tu lege,' namque potes, caelatum in marmore carmen, Quod juxta has vepres exhibet ifte lapis. THE EPITAPH. HERE refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair fcience frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 382 pages
...read (for thou canft read) the lay, ' Grav'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn. The EPITAPH. fERE refts his head upon the lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown, Fair' Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Mtlancholy marked him for her own. Large tvas his bounty, and... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1766 - 236 pages
...peaceful fhrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. LXV. By Mr. Gray. HERE refls his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair fcience frown 'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Hugh Kelly - 1767 - 310 pages
...injurious to the perfpicuity of their elegant author. THEBABLE R. No, 55. In the epitaph we are told, Here refts his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown, Fair fcience frown'd not on his humble birth And melancholy mark'd him for her own.— Now for my own part,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 142 pages
...read) the lay, * Grav'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn. The EPITAPH. TT TE RE refts his bead upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown d not on Ms humble birth* And Melancholy marKd him for her own Large was his bounty, and his... | |
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HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. 
