A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Historical, Biographical, Literary, and Miscellaneous: To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Epitaphs, 第 1 卷Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1806 |
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... grace the tombs of their heroes and wise men with panegyrical inscriptions . To examine , therefore , in what the perfection of EPITAPHS Consists , and what rules are to be observed in composing them , will be at least of as much use as ...
... grace the tombs of their heroes and wise men with panegyrical inscriptions . To examine , therefore , in what the perfection of EPITAPHS Consists , and what rules are to be observed in composing them , will be at least of as much use as ...
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... grace , A large provision for so short a race ! More mod ' rate gifts might have prolong'd his date , Too early fitted for a better state : But knowing Heaven his home , to shun delay , He leap'd o'er age , and took a shorter way . ON ...
... grace , A large provision for so short a race ! More mod ' rate gifts might have prolong'd his date , Too early fitted for a better state : But knowing Heaven his home , to shun delay , He leap'd o'er age , and took a shorter way . ON ...
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... grace , Yet truth and goodness sanctify the place : Yet blameless virtue that adorn'd thy bloom , Lamented maid ! now weeps upon thy tomb , O'scap'd from life , O safe on that calm shore , Where sin , and pain , and passion are no more ...
... grace , Yet truth and goodness sanctify the place : Yet blameless virtue that adorn'd thy bloom , Lamented maid ! now weeps upon thy tomb , O'scap'd from life , O safe on that calm shore , Where sin , and pain , and passion are no more ...
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... grace , The noblest offspring of a human race ; The virtues from thy parents handed down , Kept and increas'd with thousands of thy own : To ask thy stay , tho ' ev'ry streaming eye , And ev'ry hand were lifted to the sky ; In the same ...
... grace , The noblest offspring of a human race ; The virtues from thy parents handed down , Kept and increas'd with thousands of thy own : To ask thy stay , tho ' ev'ry streaming eye , And ev'ry hand were lifted to the sky ; In the same ...
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... grace , This generation cannot fill his place . Reader , JOHN MILNE , who maketh the fourth Join , And by descent from father unto son , Sixth master - mason to a royal race Of seven successive kings , sleeps in this place . ST ...
... grace , This generation cannot fill his place . Reader , JOHN MILNE , who maketh the fourth Join , And by descent from father unto son , Sixth master - mason to a royal race Of seven successive kings , sleeps in this place . ST ...
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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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第 20 頁 - 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.
第 xiv 頁 - 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...
第 18 頁 - 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.
第 235 頁 - 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.
第 21 頁 - 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.
第 4 頁 - 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.
第 38 頁 - They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
第 95 頁 - 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.
第 4 頁 - 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.
第 221 頁 - 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.