 | 1811 - 386 pages
...dress, To quiet all thy heart's alarms, - And bid thy tears for ever cease! EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. TAKE, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear, Take...I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form— she bow'd to taste the wave And died. DOPS youth, does beauty, read the line, Does sympathetic fear their... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 526 pages
...which Heav'n so lately gave: To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. Does Youth, does Beauty,...alarm ? Speak, dead MARIA ! breathe a strain divine : Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 516 pages
...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 taste the wave, And died. Does Youth, does Beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their... | |
 | 1811 - 750 pages
...• Epitaph, — as in the Edition of Mason's Poems, 1771: On Mrs. Masin, in Pristol Cathedral : " Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift, which lleav'n so lately gave : [care. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling Her faded form ; she bow'd... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 524 pages
...this Prosopopsia. EPITAPHS INSCRIPTIONS. EPITAPH I. ON MRS. MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. 1 ARE, 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 Mason - 1811 - 530 pages
...Prosopopaeia. EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS. EPITAPH I. ON MRS. MASON, IN Till CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. I AKB, 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... | |
 | 1811 - 768 pages
...Heav'n so lately gave : [care. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling Her faded form ; she bow'd to. taste the wave, And died. Does Youth, does Beauty, read the line Docs sympathetic fear their breasts '•' alarm ? [divine : Speak, dead Maria! breathe a strain Ev'n... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1813 - 696 pages
...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...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 fear their... | |
 | John Feltham - 1813 - 368 pages
...Mason the poet, written on his wife, who died in the 28th year of her age. Take, holy earth, all tViat my soul holds dear ! Take that best gift which Heaven...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 fear their... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 804 pages
...inscription, which was composed by Mr Mason himself : — " Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds daar: Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave :...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 fear their... | |
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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 bow'd to taste the wave, And died. 
