 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...lawn, nor at the wood was he; " The next with dirges due in sad array " Slow thro' the church-way path we saw " him borne. " Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the " lay " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged " thorn." THE EPITAPH [5]. Here rests his head upon the lap... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...teacheth charitie. The Muse of Gray, too, his honoured it with » tribute worthy it? tender assiduity : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The Xed-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. And lastly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...lawn, nor at the wood was he; " The next with dirges due in sad array " Slow thro' the church-way path we saw " him borne, " Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the "lay THE EPITAPH [45]. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown:... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...at the wood was he. • " The next, with dirges due in sad array, " Slow thro' the church-yard path we saw him " borne. " Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. " HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...lawn, nor at the wood, was he. The next with dirges due, in sad array, Slow thro' the ohurch-way path we saw him borne; Approach, and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone, beneath yon aged thorn. Here the words thou canst, are emphatical, as they are... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 480 pages
...teacheth charitie. The Muse of Cray, too, has honoured it with a tribute worthy its tender assiduity : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found i The Red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. And... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...nor at the wood was he : «The next, with dirges due, in sad array. 'Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne* {Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay 'Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.* THE EPITAPH; Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...and his Noontide repose." " The next with dirges due in sad array " Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him " borne, • * Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH [45]. Here rests his head upon the !ap of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...at the wood w;ts he! ** The next, with dirges due, in sad array, ** Slow thro* the church way -path we saw him borne: '* Approach, and read (for thou canst read; the lay ** Grav'd on the stone beneath you aged thornt." THE EPITAPH. TTERE rests his head upon the lap of... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...nor at the wood was he. " The next, with dirges due in sad array, " Slow thro' the church-yard path we saw him " borne. " Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. " HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,... | |
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One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw... 
