 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...on His providence. But you, whom every Grace and Muse adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend. Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you: And take for tribute... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads - 1878 - 712 pages
...ungrateful Stage : . . . . Hut you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born. Be kind to my remains ; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to yon. The esteem so justly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...stage; i .... But you, •whom every Muse and Grace adorn, '..'.. Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh, defend Against your judgment your departed friend. Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But guard those laurels which descend to you." The crowd, as usual,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...on His providence : But you, whom every Muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...on His providence : But you, whom every Muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...pure and cold, I can't but fancy that this great man — in this respect, like him of whom we spoke in Be kind to my remains, and oh ! defend Against your Judgment your departed Friend ! Let not tliu in ill1 in Foe my Fame pursue ; But shade those Lawrels which descend to You : And take for Tribute... | |
 | Albert Barnes Moss - Carlisle (England) - 1881 - 324 pages
...age of thirtytwo, leaving no issue. Shortly before his death he wrote the following to a friend : — "Be kind to my remains ; and oh \ defend Against your judgment your departed friend. In 1728 the manor of Wharton "W88 soi(i to tte Il0'wttersWHEELBARROW HArr is a ^am\et, H mile8 E> from... | |
 | Johannes Scherr - English literature - 1882 - 324 pages
...ungrateful stage ; But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune horn, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh, defend Against your judgment your departed friend. Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But guard those laurels which descend to you." 4 The beginnings of... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1882 - 1190 pages
...on His providence : But you whom every Muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you ; And take for tribute... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...on His providence : But you, whom every Muse and grace adorn. Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and oh, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But rhade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute... | |
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I live a rent-charge on his providence: But you, whom every muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains; and oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue; But shade... 
