 | Joseph Lemuel Saywell - Northallerton (England) - 1885 - 342 pages
...epitaph, Monumentcomposed by Dr. Thomas Chapman, Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge : — AD 1513. Blush not, marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory...enriched with the goods of nature, If not of fortune, and happy In the duration, If not variety, Of his enjoyments : and, tho' the partial world Despised... | |
 | Folklore - 1888 - 916 pages
...who undoubtedly lived to the extraordinary age of 169 years. The inscription runs as follows : — "Blush not, marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory...enriched with the goods of nature if not of fortune, and happy in the duration if not the variety of his enjoyments : And though the partial world despised... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - Happiness - 1895 - 128 pages
...epitaph, composed by Dr. Thomas Chapman, master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, from 1746 to 1 760 : " Blush not, Marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory...Jenkins ; a person obscure in birth, but of a life truly remarkable ; for he was enriched with the goods of Nature, if not of Fortune ; and happy in the duration,... | |
 | 1899 - 836 pages
...an epitaph of 1 743 at Bolton, in Yorkshire, which makes an excellent beginning but a tedious end : Blush not, Marble ! To rescue from Oblivion the Memory of HENRY JENKINS arouses high expectations, which the remainder of the epitaph does not sustain. Taking the centuries... | |
 | Frederic William Unger - Epitaphs - 1904 - 216 pages
...: In the church on a mural tablet of black marble, is inscribed the following epitaph, composed by Thomas Chapman, Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge...enriched with the goods of nature, if not of fortune, and happy in the duration, if not variety, of his enjoyments ; and tho' the partial world despised... | |
 | Joseph Smith Fletcher - Yorkshire (England) - 1921 - 264 pages
...Cambridge. The epitaph is of the usual verbose style of that period : — " Blush not, marble, to secure from oblivion the memory of HENRY JENKINS: A person...enriched with the goods of nature, if not of fortune, and happy in the duration if not variety of his enjoyments : and tho' the partial world despised and... | |
 | Howard Peach - History - 2004 - 222 pages
...great black jack of strong beer! His epitaph at St Mary's Church, Bolton on Swale is worth quoting: "Blush not marble to rescue from oblivion the memory of Henry Jenkins, a person of obscure birth, but of a life truly memorable. For he was enriched with the goods of Nature, if not... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1821 - 664 pages
...Blush not, marble, To rescue from oblivion The memory of Нету Jettlnns, A person obscure in birtb, But of a life truly memorable : For He was enriched With the goods of nature, If not of fortune, And happy In the duration, If not variety, Of hia enjoyments : And Tho' the partial world Despised... | |
 | 1741 - 758 pages
...Jenkins. Bin Hi not, marble, To refcue from oblivion The memory of Henry Jenkins, A perfon obicure iii birth, But of a life truly memorable : For He was enriched With the goods of nature, Jf not of fortune, And happy 111 the duration, If not variety Of his enjoyments And, Tbo' the partial... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1749 - 694 pages
...MARBLE! To refcue from oblivion The Memory of HENRY JENKINS; A perfon oblcure in birth, But of a lite truly memorable : For, He was enriched With the goods of Nature If not of Fortune; And happy In the duration, If not variety, Of his enjoyments : And, tho' the partial world Defpifed... | |
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Blush not, marble, to rescue from oblivion the memory of HENRY JENKINS : a person obscure in birth, but of a life truly memorable; for he was enriched with the goods of nature, if not of fortune, and happy in the duration, if not variety, of his enjoyments;... 
