 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 London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Page 149edited by Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...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...Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...lies an honest man:" A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud4 ant great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease,...Content with Science in the vale of Peace, Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear j From Nature's temperate feast... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...man." A poet, bless'd beyond the poet's fate. Whom heaven kept sacred from the proud and great. Joe Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace> Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temp'rate feast... | |
 | 1822 - 428 pages
...irpoefShefya; O.VTOL w a/iiporepoif artvotXTO; icov xctt Of Compare Pope's Epitaph on Fenton : Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. air nit." Is this a genuine anecdote, or a copy of similar storiea in ancient writers ? Ib. p. 234.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...FENTOV. AT BASTHAMSTEAD IN BERKSHIRE, 1730. A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great ; Foe to loud praise, and friend to learncd ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...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 science m the vale of peace. fc'almly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, West beyond the Poet's fate. Whom Heaven kept facred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in tile vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pages
...of your mind is most exactly described in a line of Pope's, corrected and improved by Thomson : -A friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. And since your amhition hath chosen the better vol.. iv. w part, it is the duty of all that value you,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1813 - 696 pages
...truly say, liere lies an honest maii, A Fuel, blessed beyond a poet's fate. Whom heaven kept sacred from the proud and great. Foe to loud praise, and...Content with science in the vale of peace, Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear, From nature's temperate feast... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 614 pages
...May truly say, here lies anhontst man, A Poet, blessed beyond a poet's fate, Whom heaven kept sacred from the proud and great. Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Cuntem with science in the Tale of peace, Calmly lie look'd on either life, and here Suw nothing to... | |
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