 The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole,...  Appletons' Journal - Side 1431879Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 sider
...Yet runs, himself, life's mad career, Wild as the wave; Here pause—and, thro' the starting tear, The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend—whether thy soul Soars fancy's nights beyond the pole, Or darkling... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 sider
...life's mad career, Wild as the wave ; Here pause— and, through the starting tear, Survey. this grave. The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and...And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him tow, And »tain'd his name ! Reader, attend — whether thyaoul Soars fancy's Sights beyond the pole,... | |
 | Carlton BRUCE (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]) - 1837 - 300 sider
...communication with the northern wizard at Abbotsford, and we bent over the resting-place of Burns. " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow. And softer name ; But thoughtless follies laid him low. And stain'd his name." " Bonnie Edinburgh" gave us pleasure,... | |
 | George Combe - 1839 - 422 sider
...life's mad career, Wild as the wave, Here pause, and, through the starting tear Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and...thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name. Reader ! attend : whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 sider
...Young fancy's rays the hills adorning. but when addressing us from his grave in his epitaph, he says, The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low And stain'd his name. Reader, attend, whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 sider
...addressing us from his grave in his epitaph, he says, The poor inhabitant below Was quick to leara aud wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid htm low And stain'd his name. Reader, attend, whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole,... | |
 | London city mission - 1840 - 620 sider
...life's mad career, Wild as the wave : Here pause, and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and...thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name. Reader, attend,—whether thy sold Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole,— Or darkling grubs this... | |
 | 1840 - 408 sider
...hopes of friends, and a tarnished name, as mementos of his undoubted genius. BIOGRAPHY. ROBERT BURNS. The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and wise to know. And keenly felt tbe friendly glow And softer ñame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low. And stain'd his name. Burn... | |
 | 1841 - 580 sider
...o'er which she held her wide command, -The valley of my dreams, was our own NATIVE LAND. t BURNS. " The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn and...thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name !" A BAED'S EPITAPH. THEEE are two classes of men in the community — those ruled by impulse, and... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1842 - 834 sider
...manliness which was the corner-stone of his character, he wrote a true inscription for his own grave : — The poor inhabitant below, Was quick to learn, and...friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless folly laid him low, And ttained his name. If, then, his failings are recorded for eternity, while those... | |
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