 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
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 936 pages
...friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either lite, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear, From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd heaven . that he liad lived, and that he dy'd." ' The first publication... | |
 | 1815 - 740 pages
...to him eternal bli>s in the kingdom of Heaven. — The following lines of Pope df pict the man i " Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease. Content with Science in the vale of Peace, Calmly he louk'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feast... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...truly say, " Here lies an honest man :" A poet, bless'd 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 temp' rate... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Langhorne's Poems, p. ii. p. 123. Park's ed. Ver. 75. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life] . " Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science, in the vale of peace." Pope's Ep. to Fenton, 6. W. £ And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...say, " Here lies an honest man ; " A peel, bless'd beyond the poef 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 temp'rate feast... | |
 | 1818 - 596 pages
...praise, and friend to letraad-eMe, Content with science in the vale of peace. « ,'ulnily he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From* nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, Tbank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. Rumour. THE COUNTRY... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...truly say, ' Here lies an honest man :' A poet, hless'd heyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept saered from the proud and great Foe to loud praise, and friend...learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace, Cahaly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nuthing to regret, or there to fear ; From natore's temperate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud p_raise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. J Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 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... | |
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