 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 - 143 psl.1879Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 psl.
...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 wise...flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low. And stain'd his name. Reader, attend. — Whether thy soul Soars fancy's flight beyond the pole, Or darkling... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1830 - 370 psl.
...Let his epitaph, written by himself, sink deep into the memory of every youthful votary of science. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low JLnd stain' d his name. Reader attend ! Whether thy soul Soar fancy's heights, beyond the pole, Or... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1830 - 40 psl.
...March. 24th, 1830. p. 8. himself, sink deep into the.memory of every youthful votary of science. • The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him lou> • Jlnd stained his name. Reader attend ! Whether thy soul Soar fancy's heights, beyond the pole,... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - 1832 - 292 psl.
...biographers cannot be disputed, that there was " a far better epitaph in the one he wrote for himself:" — " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and...softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name." The whole is surrounded by a palisade, adorned with unusually fine Scotch thistles... | |
 | 1838 - 448 psl.
...communication with the northern wizard at Abbotsford, and we bent over the restingplace of Burns. " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and...softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd hid name." " Bonnie Edinburgh" gave us pleasure, and Old Holyrood awakened many associations... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 370 psl.
...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...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.) - 1834 - 364 psl.
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 psl.
...life's mad career, Wild as ihe wave ; Here pause — and thro' the starting tear,Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, Arid keenly felt the friendly elow, And softer flame. But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stnin'd... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 psl.
...wave; Here pause — and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhahitant helow, Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glovr, And softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend—... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 psl.
...understand it. All that can be said upon this subject, is said by Robert Burns in his Bard's epitaph — The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise...softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low And stain 'd his name. * See Barrow's first sermon. Reader, attend — whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights... | |
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