| 1850 - 340 páginas
...: 0 ! do not lightly take away The life thou canst not give. EPITAPH ON MAKY, THE WIFE OF THE EET. W. MASON. TAKE, holy earth, all that my soul holds...sympathetic fear their breast alarm ? Speak, dead MARIA ; breathe a strain divine— E'en from the grave thou shall have power to charm! Bid them be... | |
| 1850 - 300 páginas
...: 0 ! do not lightly take away The life thou canst not give. EPITAPH ON MART, THE WIFE OF THE EEV. W. MASON. TAKE, holy earth, all that my soul holds...I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form—she bow'd to taste the wave, And died ! Does youth, does beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...Listen all Through the twilight, through the shade, Epitaph on Mrs Mason, in the Cathedral of Brittol. Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear: Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; she bowed to taste the wave, And died ! Does youth, does beauty, read the line 1 Does sympathetic... | |
| John Chilcott - 1851 - 472 páginas
...deceased, and are known far and wide; but as they can never be too highly appreciated we repeat them:— Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear; Take that best gift which heav'n so lately gave; To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; she bow'd to... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 páginas
...who die such deaths. Every one knows Mason's fine epitaph on his young wife in this very cathedral: Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bowed to taste the wave And died. The first place that I visited was connected with a far... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 312 páginas
...who die such deaths. Every one knows Mason's fine epitaph on his young wife in this very cathedral : Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bowed to taste the wave And died. The first place that I visited was connected with a far... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 páginas
...who die such deaths. Every one knows Mason's fine epitaph on his young wife in this very cathedral: Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bowed to taste the wave, And died. The first place that I visited was connected with a far... | |
| Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 444 páginas
...poetry of England, and a repetition here, however trite it may appear, cannot impair their beauty:— " Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear: Take...best gift which heaven so lately gave; To Bristol's font I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form: she bowed to taste the wave, And died. Does youth,... | |
| Rosalie Bell - 1855 - 462 páginas
...Earth's sorrows weep, and think of Heaven. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BKISTOL. UZJiUiam TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form. She bowed to taste the wave, And died ! Does yonth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic... | |
| Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 páginas
...the 7th, 1797, Aged 72. On Mrs. MASON, the wife of the poet, in Bristol Cathedral (by the Eev. Wm. Mason) :— " Take, holy earth ! all that my soul...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form; she bow'd to taste the wave, And died : Does youth, does beauty, read the line? Does sympathetic... | |
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