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" 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 366
1823
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An Historical and Critical Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Right ...

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...
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Œuvres de Lord Byron: Notice. Essai sur le geńie et le caracter̀e de Lord ...

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...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: With ...

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...
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Poems

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...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 14

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...
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The Giaour

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...
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The pleasures of piety, a poem

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...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 3

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,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 94, Part 1

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...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

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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