 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pages
...last generation most children knew by heart. In how different a spirit is Byron's epitaph on his dog ! To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies. 18 A friend, a book, the stealing hours secure, And mark them down for wisdom. — Thomson. Autumn,... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fugitive slaves - 1855 - 338 pages
...for shame. Ye, who perchance behold tin's simple urn, Pass on — it honors none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies." By a will which his lordship executed in 1811, lie directed that his own body should be buried in a... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...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, — -and here he lies." Newstead Abbey, November 30, 1808. TO A LADY, ON BEING ASKED MY REASON FOR QUITTING ENGLAND IN THE... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...last generation most children knew by heart. In how different a spirit is Byron's epitaph on his dog ! "To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies." 855. Friends: " A friend, a book, the stealing hours secnre, And mark them down for wisdom." Thomson.... | |
 | 1861 - 1050 pages
...candle*was burning on the mantel. It had become dark. Just as I came to the end of the poem, — " To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies," — my foot slipped down the jamb, and struck a dog, who was lying beneath. The dog sprang up, howled,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1881 - 588 pages
...conclusion : "" 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 — and here he lies." The prose epitaph, not so widely known, may perhaps be quoted more fully : " Near this spot are deposited... | |
 | John Potter Hamilton - Falconry - 1860 - 340 pages
...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, and here he lies." G-ENTLEMEN who derive their amusements chiefly from field sports should pay particular attention to... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...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, — and here he lies. NEWSTEAD ABBEY, November 30, 1808. TO TIME. TIME! on whose arbitrary wing The varying hours must flag... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 452 pages
...for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honors none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies. Newstead Abbey, November 30, 1808. TO A LADY, ON BEING ASKED MY REASON FOR QUITTING ENGLAND IN THE... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...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 — and here he lies. • This monument Is still a conspicuous orniuueut in the garden of Neffste..d. TLi fullowing la the... | |
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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, —... 
