 Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with...  The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 135by Alexander Pope - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...honest man : A poet, blessed beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the value of peace. Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content...Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.' The first couplet of this epitaph is borrowed from Crashaw. The four next lines contain a species of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...honest Man: A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Toe to loud Praise, and Friend to learned Ease, Content...nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd*, Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he died. ON MR GAY, In... | |
 | Newcastle-under-Lyme high sch - 1886 - 378 pages
...honest man :" A poet blessed beyond the poet's fate. Whom heaven kept sacred, from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content...life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; Prom nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, OITB BKiTiSH B1KDS. BT EH EIAD. III. THE HAWFINCH..... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...strangers honour'd, and by strangers moum'd. a. POJPE — To the Memory of an Unfortunate lady. Line 51. n brocade; The cobbler apron'd and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the mo Prom Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd Thank'd Heav'n that he had lived, and that he died. 6.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1885 - 356 pages
...whole elegy. V. 73. " Far from the madding wordling's hoarse discords." Drummond. Rogers. V. 75. " Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science, in the vale of peace," Pope. Ep. to Fenton, 6. II'. " Mollia per placidam delectant otia vitam." Manil. Astr. iv. 512. V.... | |
 | Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction - 1885 - 834 pages
...unbounded love for his fellow men, and when he realized that the end was not far off, " ' Camly be looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear.' " ROBERT H. WATERMAN, 33°.-. WILLIAM VAUGHN ALEXANDER, 33°. -. Of a brilliant and comprehensive intellect,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 396 pages
...authority. A poet blessed beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast... | |
 | Royal arch masons. Grand Chapter (Mich.) - 1886 - 1376 pages
...And lying down to peaceful rest, Wearing the white rose of a blameless life. " Calmly hf lookwd oil either life, and here Saw nothing to regret or there to fear." MEMORY OF TI1K BELOVED DEA -OFSister Jurisdiction?. " Tin done ! the dark decree IB enid, That called... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - Literature - 1890 - 354 pages
...loud praise and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace, Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret or...fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thanked Heaven that he had lived, and that he died." FTC HARTFORD, CONN. Stone Worn Away (Vol. ii,... | |
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