 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 358 pages
...his own Wife, who died in a consumption, in the 28th year of her age, and was interred at Bristol, 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 ware, And died. Does youth, does beauty read the line? Does sympathetic fear their... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 pages
...not lightly take away The life thou canst not give. EPITAPH ON MARY, THE WIFE OF THE REV. W. MASON. 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... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 304 pages
...not lightly take away The life thou canst not give. EPITAPH ON MARY, THE WIFE OF THE REV. W. MASON. 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... | |
 | 1840 - 378 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 ;... | |
 | John Chilcott - 1840 - 382 pages
...appreciated, we repeat them : Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear ; Take that hest 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... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pages
...sentence — And teach me all things but — repentance. WILLIAM MASON. 1725-1797. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. 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... | |
 | 1841 - 306 pages
...She died in his arms whilst in the act of taking the water, at the age of twenty-seven, in 17Ö8. ' Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take...beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breast alarm? Speak, dead Maria, breathe a strain divine, E'en from the grave thou shalt have power... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...EnylishGarden, fyc. Mrs. Mason died at Bristol Wells in 1767, and is interred in Bristol cathedral : — " Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift, which llwiv'n во lately gave : To Bristol's fount 1 bore, with trembling care, Her faded form — she bow'd... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...written by her Awsinwrf. Take, holy earth ! what to my soul is 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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pages
...shall spring " Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew." Each fragrant flower that sирe the dew. "To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care " Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, " And died." She stoop'd to rip the wave. " We thought as we hollowed his... | |
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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. 
