 | James Sargant Storer, John Greig (engraver) - 1805 - 112 pagina’s
...subsistence. The beautiful epitaph written by Burns, on himself, is so strongly illustrative of his character, that we are persuaded a better finish cannot...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near; And owre this grassy heap sing dool, And drap a tear. Is there a Bard of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 468 pagina’s
...wretches blam'd : But with such as he, where'er he be, May J be savd or'd - d! A BARD'S A BARD'S EPITAPH. Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought,...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near; And owre this grassy heap sing dool, And drap a tear. Is there a bard of... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pagina’s
...Epitaph on himself, deserves to be recorded: Let him draw near ; And owre this grassy heap sing dool, " Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought,...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, And drap a tear. " Is there a bard of rustic song, Who, noteless, steals the crowds among, That... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 510 pagina’s
...canting wretches blam'd: But with such as he, where'er he be, May I be sav'd or dd ! A BARD'S EPITAPH. Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought,...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near And owre this grassy heap sing dool, And drap a tear. Is there a bard of rustic... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 pagina’s
...wretches blam'd : But with such as he, where'er he be, May I be sav'd or ddI A BARD'S A BARD'S EPITAPH. Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought,...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near j And owre this grassy heap sing dool, And drap a tear. Is there a bard of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 pagina’s
...canting wretches blam'd : But with such as.he, where'er he be, May I be sav'd or ( A BARD'S EPITAPH. Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought,...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to* seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw nuar ; And owre this grassy heap sing dool, Aud drap at*ar. Is there a bard of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 406 pagina’s
...wretches blam'd : 3ut with such as he, where'er he be, May. I be sav'd or dd ! , A BARD'S EPITAPH. Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rul Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snoc Let him draw near; And owre this grassy heap sing dool,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1820 - 470 pagina’s
...lie, where'er he be, May 1 be sav'd or dd! * Goldsmith. VOL. III. X sleeps, A BARD'S A BARD'S EPITAPH. Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought,...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near ; And owre this grassy heap sing dool. And drap a tear. Is there a bard of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pagina’s
...blam'd : But with such as lie, where'er he be, May I be sav'd or damn'd! 1 Goldsmith. A BARD'S EPITAPH. Is there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought,...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near; And owre this grassy heap sing dool, And drap a tear. Is there a bard of... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pagina’s
...wretches blam'd: But with such as he, where'er he be, May I be tav'dor danm'd! .i BARD'S EPITAPH. la there a whim-inspired fool, Owre fast for thought,...owre hot for rule, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, Let him draw near; And owre this grassy heap sing dool, And drap a tear. Is there a bard of... | |
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character, that we are persuaded a better finish cannot be given to this sketch, than by its insertion here. Precept, when founded on the deductions of experience, becomes of ten-fold greater value than when its crude advice is the simple inference of... 
