A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Historical, Biographical, Literary, and Miscellaneous: To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Epitaphs, المجلد 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1806 |
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... death extended , lies plump Jack , A sleeper ne'er to be forgot , Renown'd as Ch- -y , or as Trott . Oft has he slept ( we've heard him snore ) Within these sacred walls before ; Yet , charm'd awhile by MORPHEUS ' rod , He soon shook ...
... death extended , lies plump Jack , A sleeper ne'er to be forgot , Renown'd as Ch- -y , or as Trott . Oft has he slept ( we've heard him snore ) Within these sacred walls before ; Yet , charm'd awhile by MORPHEUS ' rod , He soon shook ...
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... death shall live many a yeere . Therefore in your life do good while yee may , That when meagre Death shall take you away , Yee may live and like - famed as Casy and Bowerman , For he that doth well , shall be never a poor man . ST ...
... death shall live many a yeere . Therefore in your life do good while yee may , That when meagre Death shall take you away , Yee may live and like - famed as Casy and Bowerman , For he that doth well , shall be never a poor man . ST ...
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... Death's self is sorry . ' Twas a child that did so thrive In age and feature , As Heav'n and Nature seem'd to strive , Which own'd the creature . Yeeres he number'd scarce thirteen , When Fates turn'd cruel , Yet three full zodiacks had ...
... Death's self is sorry . ' Twas a child that did so thrive In age and feature , As Heav'n and Nature seem'd to strive , Which own'd the creature . Yeeres he number'd scarce thirteen , When Fates turn'd cruel , Yet three full zodiacks had ...
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... death . Like you , I once thought ev'ry bliss secure , And gold of ev'ry ill the certain cure : Till , steep'd in sorrows , and besieg'd with pain , Too late I found all earthly riches vain ; Disease , with scorn , threw back the sordid ...
... death . Like you , I once thought ev'ry bliss secure , And gold of ev'ry ill the certain cure : Till , steep'd in sorrows , and besieg'd with pain , Too late I found all earthly riches vain ; Disease , with scorn , threw back the sordid ...
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... Death at a Battle near Zutphen , in Gel- derland , September 22 , 1586 . England , Netherland , the Heavens , and the Arts , The Souldiers and the World have made sixe parts Of noble Sidney ; for who will suppose , That a small heape of ...
... Death at a Battle near Zutphen , in Gel- derland , September 22 , 1586 . England , Netherland , the Heavens , and the Arts , The Souldiers and the World have made sixe parts Of noble Sidney ; for who will suppose , That a small heape of ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
beauty Ben Jonson beneath blest bloom born breath buried CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL CATHEDRAL charms CHRISTOPHER PITT CHURCH CHURCH-YARD dead dear death died doth dust dy'd e'er earth EDWARD WINTER Epictetus epitaph erected ev'ry eyes faith fame fate genius GEORGE STEEVENS grace grave grief hath heart heaven honest honour hope husband inscription JOHN JOHN MILNE JOVIANUS PONTANUS kill'd kings knight LADY learning lies life's liv'd live London Lord lov'd lyes lyeth maid marble memory mind MONTGOMERYSHIRE monument mortal mourn Muse ne'er never Nott o'er pains parish peace PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL pity poor praise pride Reader rest ROBERT DODSLEY sacred shine sigh sleeps sorrow soul stone sweet tear tender thee thine THOMAS THOMAS KNOLLES thou tomb truth twas virtue weep WESTMINSTER ABBEY wife WILLIAM WILLIAM PRYNNE wise worms wyff youth
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الصفحة 20 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
الصفحة xiv - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
الصفحة 18 - Here rests a woman, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense ; No conquest she, but o'er herself desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd.
الصفحة 235 - Virtues lov'd to dwell. Affection warm, and faith sincere, • And soft humanity were there. ' In agony, in death resign'd, She felt the Wound she left behind.
الصفحة 21 - WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault. Leave it buried in this vault. One name was ELIZABETH, The other let it sleep with death : Fitter, where it died, to tell, Than that it lived at all. Farewell 1 SONG.
الصفحة 4 - He played so truly. So by error to his fate They all consented; But viewing him since (alas, too late) They have repented. And have sought (to give new birth) In baths to steep him; But, being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him.
الصفحة 38 - They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
الصفحة 95 - Lord 1680, Was buried a true Englishman, Who in Berkshire was well known To love his country's freedom, 'bove his own, But living immured full twenty year, Had time to write, as does appear, HIS EPITAPH.
الصفحة 4 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
الصفحة 221 - 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.