 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
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 psl.
...life's mad career, Wild as the wave ? Here, pause, and thro' 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 ! Header, attend — whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling... | |
 | Burns Club of the City of New York - 1860 - 164 psl.
...may infer from the lines suggesting a Poet's epitaph, in which he says: " The poor inhabitant beloiv Was quick to learn, and wise to know, And keenly felt...thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name." We follow, with profound interest, the career of this earnest, ambitious, proud young bard, who looked... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - 1860 - 182 psl.
...life's mad career, Wild as the wave ? Here pause — and thro' the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and...glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid >nm low,. And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend — whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 322 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...know, And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer name ,• But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name. " Reader, attend : whether thy... | |
 | 1864 - 616 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...thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained his name. Reader, attend : whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the 1>ole, Or darkling grubs this earthly... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1862 - 532 psl.
...prediction of the fate which he saw awaiting him, against all ever advanced on the opposite side : — " The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and wise to know, And keenly felt the social glow, And suf tor flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stained hia name." Despite... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 328 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...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 332 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...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... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 psl.
...-world." Frederick Schlegel. From " lectures on the History of Literature." BURN'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF. " THE poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and...softer flame, But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name. " Mortal, attend ! Howe'er thy soul Soar fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkly... | |
 | James Matthew Barrie - 1922 - 76 psl.
...failures, at least all the best of us. The greatest Scotsman that ever lived wrote himself down a failure: "The poor Inhabitant below Was quick to learn and...thoughtless follies laid him low. And stained his name." Perhaps the saddest lines in poetry, written by a man who could make things new for the gods themselves.... | |
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