 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...victory ? A. — Ask him who rose again from me. LESSON CLXV. On the Death of Mrs. Mason. — MASON. 1. TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear...fount I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form. She bow'd to taste the wave. 2. And died. Does youth, does beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1845 - 638 pages
...cathedral : — •' Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear : Take that best gift, which Hcav'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 road the line? Doce sympathetic fear their... | |
 | Lionel Watt Gully - 1849 - 138 pages
...lines on the loss of his wife, who died at the Clifton Hotwells, March 27, 1767, in her 28th year. " 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... | |
 | Beriah Botfield - 1849 - 548 pages
...Heaven fo lately gave: To Briftol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; fhe bowed to tafte the wave, And died. Does youth, does beauty read the line ? Does fympathetic fear their breafts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a ftrain divine : E'en from the... | |
 | 1850 - 340 pages
...not lightly take away The life thou canst not give. EPITAPH ON MARY, THE WIFE OF THE KEV. W. MASON. TAKE, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear ; Take...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... | |
 | 1850 - 300 pages
...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 ! Does youth, does 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...Hark, he sweeps the master-strings j Listen all Epitaph on Mrs Matón, in Ae Cathedral of Erittol. ely joke ; And thus unto the calender In merry guise...— They are upon the road. The calender, * torn T docs beauty, read the line t Does sympathetic fear their breaste alarm ! Speak, dead Maria ! breathe... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...who die such deaths. Every one knows Mason's fine epitaph on his young wife in this very cathedral: Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take...faded form: she bowed to taste the wave And died. The first place that I visited was connected with a far deeper tragedy, the beautiful church of St.... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 pages
...ceremony, apprehended, (feared,) enl««fa(«mcnt, guests, quenched. SECT. CLXXXII. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave. COMMENTARIES ON THE BIBLE. 167 9 To Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form : she... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...smites the lyre: Hark, he sweeps the master-strings; Listen all. EPITAPH, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. Take, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift which heaven so lately gave: Ami died ! Does youth, does beauty, read the line 1 Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm 1 Slieak,... | |
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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. 
