 | William Mason - 1803 - 252 páginas
...or suffer'd or enjoy'd. Written in 1760. EPITAPHS. EPITAPH I. ON MBS. MASON. IN BRISTOL CATHEDRAL. 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 taste... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 páginas
...when the short season of blooming shall end, Which fate to the children of nature has given, EPITAPH. TAKE, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take that best gift, which heaven so lately gavg. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form She bow'd to taste the ware. Does... | |
 | George William Manby - 1806 - 138 páginas
...indeed I never visited it but I felt and partook of the sorrows—as of a friend. Take, holy eatth, all that my soul holds dear; Take that best gift,...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bowed to taste the wave Speak, dear Maria: breathe a strain divine; E'en ftom the grave... | |
 | 1806 - 886 páginas
...BRISTOL CASHEDRAI*- .-" ' \ ON MARY, The wife of fheRev. W. MASON, ttho died March 37, 1767, aged 28. TAKE, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take that best gift, which heav'n so lately gars; To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; she bow'd to... | |
 | 1811 - 386 páginas
...tears for ever cease! EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. TAKE, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear, ‘r&tke that best gift which Heaven so lately gave! To Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling care, 11cr faded form—she bow'd to taste the wave And died. Does youth, does beauty, read the line, Does... | |
 | 1811 - 768 páginas
...the lines? Epitaph, as in the Edition of Mason's Poems, 1771: On Mrs. Mason, in lirisrol Cathedral: “Take, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift, which Heav'n so lately gave: [care. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling Her faded form; she bow'd to... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 526 páginas
...Prosopopajia. EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS. EPITAPH I. ON MRS. MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. 1 AKE, 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... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1813 - 696 páginas
...is no way remarkable except for the inscription, which was composed by. Mr Mason himself:— •• Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear: Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. Does youth, does beanty read the line? Does sympathetic... | |
 | John Nichols - 1813 - 514 páginas
...SHERMAN, of Kingston-upon-Hull, Esq. and wife of the Rev. WILLIAM MASON, died March 27th, 1767, aged 28. 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...sought his ancient place, And pass'da life of piety and peace. IX.—On the death of Mm. Mason.—MASOK. TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take...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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THE REV. W. MASON. TAKE, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear; Take that best gift, which Heaven so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form—she how'd to taste the wave, And died ! Does youth, does beauty read the... 
