 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 pagina’s
...heaven's expense, I live a rent-charge on his providence : But you, whom every muse and grace adorn, 70 Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 pagina’s
...Prom reading over his writings, and the biographies which we have of him, amongst which the famous But you whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, JBe kind to my remains, and oh defend Against your Judgment your departed Friend! Let not the insulting... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1867 - 572 pagina’s
...wrote an amusing account of their journey to a friend, winding up with the well-known lines : — ' Re kind to my remains, and oh ! defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend.' His mind was as vigorous as ever, in spite of the waste of many debauches; and when recommended to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 380 pagina’s
...th' ungrateful stage ; Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense, I live a rent-charge on His providence. But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee...Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not th' insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you." Congreve did so with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pagina’s
...Heaven's expence, I live a Rent-charge upon Providence : But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, \Vhom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains,...defend Against your Judgment your departed Friend I Let not the insulting Foe my Fame pursue ; But shade those Lnwrels which descend to You : And take... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 pagina’s
...ungrateful stage ; Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense, I live a rent-charge on His providence. Put you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Pie kind to my remains ; and oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not th' insulting... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pagina’s
...th' ungrateful stage : Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expence, I live a Rent-charge upon Providence : But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune bom, Be kind to my remains, and oh ! defend Against your Judgment your departed Friend ! Let not the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 pagina’s
...ungrateful stage : Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense, 1 live a rent-charge on his providence ; But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee...better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, O, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not th' insulting foe my fame pursue,... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pagina’s
...ungrateful stage : Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense, I live a rent-charge on his providence ; But yon, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, O, defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not th' insulting foe my fame pursue, —... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pagina’s
...literary executor, and in some well-known lines entreated him to be watchful over his memory : — But you, whom every muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee...defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Lot not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take... | |
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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 th... 
