 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
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Alcohol - 1888 - 426 pages
...centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness." O. 'W. HOLMES. " Calmly he looked on either Life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died." POPE. HEALTH AND... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 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...there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd." The first couplet of this epitaph is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 340 pages
...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 Foe to...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... | |
 | Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.) - 1891 - 380 pages
...the honored dead cannot withhold the sorrowing tear nor tribute to his memory. 1 'Calmly he looked on either life, and here saw nothing to regret, or there to fear." The able services of Sir DIKEMAN will be sadly missed, by the committee on ritual. We can only hope... | |
 | Bradford Kingman - Epitaphs - 1892 - 368 pages
...stone, what few vain marbles can May truly say " Here lies an honest man: " Calmly he look'd on cither life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear: From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied Thank 'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he died. 1184. In memory of | Mr. DAVID DREW | who departed... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...honest Man: A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heav"n kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe 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. XL ON MR GAY,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...honest Man: A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud Praise, and Friend to learned Ease, Content...nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd3, Thank'd Heav'n that he had Hv'd, and that he died. XI. ON MR GAY,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1893 - 122 pages
...spoken. Great heart's tribute to great heart. It can well be said of either, now that both are gone — Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing...nature's temperate feast rose satisfied ; Thank'd Heav'n that he had lived, and that he died. ADDRESS OF MR. FAULKNER, OF WEST VIRGINIA. Mr. PRESIDENT... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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 with science in the vale of peace. Cnlmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate... | |
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