 My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to...  The Great North of Scotland Railway. A Guide - Página 28de William Ferguson (of Kinmundy.) - 1881 - 174 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1904 - 460 páginas
...knack of mortuary verse, is this on a Felpham blacksmith : — My sledge and hammer lie reclined ; My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct ; my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone ; The nails are driven —... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1907 - 494 páginas
...epitaphs in which the eighteenth century seems especially to have delighted — "~My sledge and anvil I've declined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is lay'd ; My coals are spent, my irons gone ; My nails are drove, my work... | |
 | Henry Rand Hatfield - 1907 - 408 páginas
...the tomb of one William Braithwaite, blacksmith, who died in 1757: My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my bones are laid; My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is... | |
 | 1908 - 204 páginas
...although not included in his published writings, is usually attributed to him: — "My anvil and my hammer lie declined; My bellows, too, have lost their wind; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid; My coal is spent, my iron is gone, My last nail driven, and my work... | |
 | Julia de Wolf Addison - 1922 - 564 páginas
...nine years." A blacksmith's tombstone is inscribed as follows : " My sledge and hammer lie reclined My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coals are spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is... | |
 | Ethel C. Hargrove - 1913 - 376 páginas
...A punning inscription on Charles Dixon, a blacksmith, runs — " My sledge and hammer lie retired. My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, My vice all in the dust is laid. My soul is spent, my iron gone, My last nail's driven, my work's done."... | |
 | Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd - 1913 - 540 páginas
...apply to hand-forgers as a class the words of an old epitaph : " My sledge and hammer lie reclined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my bones are laid." ' The use of mechanical stamps for silver and other soft articles... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1913 - 502 páginas
...blacksmith that is to be found in Felpham churchyard, which runs thus : My sledge and hammer lie reclin'd, My bellows too have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid, My coal is spent, my iron gone, The nails are driven, my... | |
 | Karl Philipp Moritz - 1924 - 278 páginas
...which, on account of it's singularity, I here copy and send you. " My sledge and anvil lie decliu'd, " My bellows too have lost their wind ; " My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, "My coals are spent, my iron's gone, " My nails are drove ; my work is done." Many of these... | |
 | Mary Waldron - 1996 - 364 páginas
...been discovered, but it may be a paraphrase of a popular epitaph for blacksmiths: "My sledge and anvil lie declined / My bellows too have lost their wind / My fire's extinct, my forge decayed ..." 4. MR 73 (September 1785): 216—21, p. 219 cited. According to Benjamin Nangle, The Monthly Review,... | |
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