By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on— it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, —... The Edinburgh annual register - Page 3661823Full view - About this book
| John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...the piece, must here suffice as a precious evidence of early misanthropy : " Ye, who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish...stones arise, I never knew but one and here he lies." Now this panegyric upon a dog, the whole of whose virtue lay in mechanical instinct, when the writer... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1822 - 478 pages
...mémoire de son attachement, et il termine son panégyrique par ces quatre vers: Ye , who perchance behold this simple urn Pass on, — it honours none you wish...arise ;• I never knew but one and here he lies. , • « O vous qui contemplez cette urne funéraire, « Passez.... vous n'avez point à pleurer en... | |
| John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...piece, must here suffice as a precious evidence of early misanthropy : * " Ye, who perchance behold this simple urn. Pass on — it honours none you wish...stones arise, I never knew but one and here he lies." Now this panegyric upon a dog, the whole of whosevirtue lay in mechanical instinct, when the writer... | |
| John Watson DALBY - 1822 - 202 pages
...desire ; And rais'd the monumental stone to trace His strong contempt for man's degenerate race: " To mark a friend's remains these stones arise — " I never knew but one — and here he lies !" Blush, mankind, blusb! if this indeed be true — Blush, if his dog were the sole friend he knew... | |
| Walter Scott - 1823 - 780 pages
...heart deceit, By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for sharnr. Ye who behold perchance this simple urn, Pass on,...arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem as to my chilhood's sight, A... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 468 pages
...ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish...mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never kuew but one, and here he lies. Nevstead Abbey, Oct. 30, 1808. Farewell. FAHEWELL ! if ever fondest... | |
| Philip Dixon Hardy - 1823 - 126 pages
...himself as ' lone, blighted, sear'd in heart ' — and in an epitaph placed over his dog, he says, " To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies. PART FIRST — NOTE VII — P. 21, L. 15. " Without this hope no wonder man should leap O'er life's... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...attachment, with an inscription, from which we extract the following lines : — " Ye who, perchance, behold this simple urn Pass on— it honours none you wish...arise--- I never knew but one, and here he lies." resentment of a very near relative of his Lordship. To this lady, notwithstanding the family feud,... | |
| 1824 - 716 pages
...attachment, with an inscription, from which we extract the following lines : "Ye who, perchance, behold th'u simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish to...stones arise ; I never knew but one, and here he lies." On arriving at the age of manhood, Lord Byron embarked at Falmouth for Lisbon, and from thence proceeded... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple um, Pass on — it honours none you wish to mourn : To...stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies. Newstead Abbey, Oct. 30, 1808. 3Januarrj 23. St. Emerentia, VM St. Eusebius. Lyra occidit. — Rom.... | |
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