 | Epigrams, English - 1735 - 286 pages
...flame, We'd drown the world, to flop the flying dame. XIII. J XIII. An EPITAPH. UNDERNEATH this ftone doth lie -As much Beauty as could die ; Which in life did harbour give To more Virtue than doth live. XIV. T at 7 HEN Lupus has wrought hard all day, * " And the declining fun, By ftooping to embrace the... | |
 | Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...live. ON ELIZABETH LH By Ben Jonsont WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? Reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie, As much beauty as could die ; Which, when alive, did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all siie had a fault, Leave it buried... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1806 - 284 pages
...live. ON ELIZABETH LH By Sen Jonson. .t WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? Reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie, As much beauty as could die ; Which, when alive, did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault, Leave it buried... | |
 | Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...thunder, Can put this rogue and whore asunder. AN EPITAPH. UNDERNEATH this stone doth lie As much Beanty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more Virtue than doth live. OW A LIVELY WOMAN WHO WAS MARRIED TO A DULL MAN. UNFEELING, giddy, restless thing, The flyer of a jack... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...shall throw his dart at thee." It is perhaps surpassed, however, by four lines from his Epitaph on Elizabeth LH : * * » • ' Underneath this stone...life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.' In 1640, the volume of his plays and poems, which had been published in his life-time, was reprinted;... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...shall throw his dart at thee.' It is perhaps surpassed, however, by four lines from his Epitaph on Elizabeth LH : * * • • ' Underneath this stone...life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.' In 1640, the volume of his plays and poems, which had been published in his life-time, was reprinted;... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...Jonson, with a spirit which nothing could in. spire but such an object as he had been describing. " Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could...life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live." Spec. No. xxxiii. I must observe here that, in the Spectator this passage is very CXXV. To SIR WILLIAM... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...THIRD GRACE. Since ye hear his falser play ; And that he is Venus' run-away. El'ITAPH ON F.LIZABETH pt marching, equall'd with one stroke Both her first-born...bleating gods. Bdial came last, than whom a spirit more ABRAHAM COWLEY /IIUHAM COWUT, a poet of considerable distinction, was born at London, in 1618. His... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...Francis Beaumont. EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH LH WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To as much virtue as could live. If, at all, she had a fault, Leave it buried in this vault. Jonson. EPITAPH... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...gentle earth. EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH LH WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could...life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If, at all, she had a fault, Leave it buried in this vault. One name was Elizabeth, Th' other let it... | |
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WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault. Leave it buried in this vault. One name... 
