 For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow,...  Marmion - Pagina 7door Walter Scott - 1900Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 266 pagina’s
...rival slumbers nigh : Nor be thy reqniescat dumb, Lest it bo said o'er Fox's tomb. Monrn, genius lost, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not...They sleep with him who sleeps below ; And if thou mourn 'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pagina’s
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most Mourn genius high, and lore profound. And wit that loved to play,...and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps bilow : And, if tnou mourn'st they conld not s»ve from error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 660 pagina’s
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...They sleep with him who sleeps below : And, if thou mourn 'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pagina’s
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most; Mourn genius beneath a sky of bliss. A picture had it been of lasting case, Elysian quiet without toil or strife ; mourn 'st they could not save From error him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppress'd,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 pagina’s
...o'er Fox'a tomb. Eor talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning pewera divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pagina’s
...o'er Fox's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high and lore profound. And wit that loved to play,...him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed, And sacred be the last long rest. Here, where the end of earthly things Lays htroes, patriots,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 pagina’s
...o'er FoX's tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...him who owns this grave, Be every harsher thought suppressed, And sacred be the last long rest. Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots,... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pagina’s
...Introduction, CHARLES FOX. For talents mourn untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius High, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...fancy's glow — They sleep with him who sleeps below. . . . JAMES and HORACE SMITH. 1775-1839] 1779-1849] From "THE REJECTED ADDRESSES." GUI BONO? Parody... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 pagina’s
...o'er Fox's tomb.* For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play,...not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetmte, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow,— They sleep with him who sleeps... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1881 - 264 pagina’s
...Fox's tomb : — For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most; Mourn genius high and 'lore 'profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divin?, To 'penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen and fancy's glow ; — They sleep with... | |
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