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" Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With... "
The Minstrel; Or, The Progress of Genius: With Some Other Poems - Page 45
by James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1805 - 120 pages
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry, Volumes 9-10

John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...that art, fortune, enterprise, can bring, If envy, scorn, remorse, or pride the bosom wring ! XVII. Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the...the down ; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, /4v With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave ; And many...
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry: Vol. X.

English poetry - 1789 - 214 pages
...that art, fortune, enterprise, can bring, If envy, scorn, remorse, or pride the bosom wring ! XVII. " Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes,...renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where nigtit and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down ; Where a green grassy...
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The Minstrel; Or, The Progress of Genius: in Two Books. With Some Other Poems

James Beattie - 1797 - 150 pages
...fortune, enterprise, can bring, " If envy, scorn, remorse, or pride the bosom wring ! XVII. " Let.Vanity adorn the marble tomb " With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, " In the deep durgeon of some Gothic dome, " Where night and desolation ever frown. " Mine be the breezy hill that...
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The Minstrel: Or, The Progress of Genius. In Two Books. With Some Other Poems

James Beattie - Wood-engraving - 1802 - 152 pages
...art, fortune, enterprise, can bring, " If envy, scorn, remorse, or pride the bosom wring ! XVII. " Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb " With trophies,...Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, " With here and there a violet bestrown, " Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave ; " And many an evening...
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Poems of Established Reputation: To Wit: 1st. The Art of Preserving Health

Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...art, fortune, enterprise, can bring, " If envy, scorn, remorse, or pride the bosom wring ! XVII. " Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb " With trophies,...Where night and desolation ever frown. " Mine be the breeezy hill that skirts the down ; " Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, " With here and there...
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The Minstrel, Or, The Progress of Genius, with Some Other Poems

James Beattie - 1803 - 190 pages
...that art, fortune, enterprise, can bring, If envy, scorn, remorse, or pride, the bosom wring ? XVII. " Let vanity adorn the marble tomb " With trophies,...Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, " With here and there a violet bestrown, " Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave, And many an evening sun...
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The minstrel: in two books: with some other poems. To which are now added ...

James Beattie - 1803 - 240 pages
...marble tomb, With trophies, rhimes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deej> dungeon of some gothick dome, Where night and desolation ever frown : Mine...Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn ; Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun...
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The Wreath: Containing The Minstrel and Other Favorite Poems, to which is ...

1806 - 184 pages
...can hring, " If envy, scorn, remorse, or pride the hosom wring! " Let Vanity adorn the marhle tomh " With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, "...dome, " Where night and desolation ever frown. " Mine he the hreeay hill that skirts the down; " Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, " With here and...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...the marble tomb With trophies, rhj mes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothict dome, Where Night and Desolation ever frown ! Mine...breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy tvirf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring...
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Translations Chiefly from the Greek Anthology: With Tales and Miscellaneous ...

Epigrams, Greek - 1806 - 312 pages
...I can hardly help supposing that the poet did but put his own wish into the mouth of his hermit. " Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave ; And many an evening sun...
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