 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pagina’s
...lamp of life is nearly extinguished': my race is run': the grave opens to receive me'; and I sink into its bosom'. I have but one request to ask at my departure...my epitaph; for', as no man who knows my motives', dares now vindicate them', let not prejudice nor ignorance asperse them'. Let them and me repose in... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pagina’s
...run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask .\: my departure from this world, — it is the charity...no man write my epitaph : for as no man who knows mv motives dare note vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorano asperse them. Let them and me repose... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pagina’s
...receive me, and I sink into its bosom All I request then, at parting from the world, is the charily of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph , for as no man, who knows my motives, dare vindicate them let not prejudice or ignorance naperse them : letthem and me repose in obscurity and... | |
 | John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - 1840 - 562 pagina’s
...lamp of life is nearly extinguished: my race is run: the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom! I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world,—it is the charity of its silence !— Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 324 pagina’s
...soon ready to receive me. and I shall sink into its bosom. All I request at parting from the world is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my...epitaph ; for as no man, who knows my motives, dare defend them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - 1841 - 326 pagina’s
...soon ready to receive me, and 1 shall sink into its bosom. All I request at parting from the world is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my...epitaph ; for as no man, who knows my motives, dare defend them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace,... | |
 | John Cornelius O'Callaghan - 1842 - 382 pagina’s
...lamp of life is nearly extinguished ; my race is run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom. I have but one request to ask at my departure...asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace ; and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to MY character.... | |
 | Patrick O'Kelly - 1842 - 336 pagina’s
...of life is nearly extinguished — my race is run — the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask at my departure...who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion,... | |
 | Patrick O'Kelly - 1842 - 336 pagina’s
...receive me, and I sink into its bosom II have but one request to ask at my departure from this world—it is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my...who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pagina’s
...nearly extinguished — my race is run — the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! 3. I have but one request to ask at my departure from...asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times, and other men, can do justice to my character.... | |
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I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. 
