 | Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 700 pages
...Heav'n so lately gave: To Bristol's fount 1 bore, with trembling care, lier 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 — K'en from the grave thon shall have... | |
 | Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 446 pages
...of England, and a repetition here, however trite it may appear, cannot impair their beauty : — " Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear : Take...best gift which heaven so lately gave ; To Bristol's font I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form: she bowed to taste the ware, And died. Does youth,... | |
 | Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 408 pages
...earth, all that my soul holds dear : Take that best gift which heaven so lately gave ; To Bristol's font I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form : she bowed to taste the wave, And died. Docs youth, does beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria,... | |
 | John Overton Choules - 1852 - 400 pages
...circulation than any other in the world. The lines were written by her husband, the Rev. William Mason. " Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear; Take...wave, And died. Does youth, does beauty read the line 1 Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead Maria j breathe a strain divine ; E'en from... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 340 pages
...classic, and for beauty of thought and diction unrivalled : " Take, holy earth ! all that my sou I holds dear ! Take that best gift which heaven so lately...faded form ; she bowed to taste the wave, And died t Does youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...Aged 72. On Mrs. MASON, the wife of the poet, in Bristol Cathedral (by the Rev. Wm. Mason) : — " 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 beauty, read the line? Does sympathetic fear their... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 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...which Heaven so lately gave ! To Bristol's fount I bove with trembling care Her faded form : she bowed to taste the wave, And died. The first place that... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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...faded form ; she bowed to taste the wave, And died 1 Does youth, does beauty, read the line 1 Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm? Speak, dead Maria... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1858 - 450 pages
...the tablet in Bristol Cathedral. It is very beautiful EPITAPH ON THE WIFE OF THE EEV. WILLIAM 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 bowed to... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...expressive silence, muse His praise. Jlimrt TltnlllfilH. ON HIS WIFE, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF 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 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. 
