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The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a ... - Page 223
by Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875
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A Collection of Epigrams: To which is Prefixed, a Critical Dissertation on ...

1735 - 286 pages
...flame, We'd drown the world, to flop the flying dame. XIII. J XIII. An EPITAPH. UNDERNEATH this ftone doth lie -As much Beauty as could die ; Which in life did harbour give To more Virtue than doth live. XIV. T at 7 HEN Lupus has wrought hard all day, * " And the declining fun, By ftooping to embrace the...
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A collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, Volume 1

Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...live. ON ELIZABETH LH By Ben Jonsont WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? Reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie, As much beauty as could die ; Which, when alive, did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all siie had a fault, Leave it buried...
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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Historical ..., Volume 1

1806 - 284 pages
...live. ON ELIZABETH LH By Sen Jonson. .t WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? Reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie, As much beauty as could die ; Which, when alive, did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault, Leave it buried...
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The panorama of wit. Exhibiting the choicest epigrams in the English language

Panorama - 1809 - 368 pages
...thunder, Can put this rogue and whore asunder. AN EPITAPH. UNDERNEATH this stone doth lie As much Beanty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more Virtue than doth live. OW A LIVELY WOMAN WHO WAS MARRIED TO A DULL MAN. UNFEELING, giddy, restless thing, The flyer of a jack...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...thee." It is perhaps surpassed, however, by four lines from his Epitaph on Elizabeth LH : * * » • ' Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could...life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.' In 1640, the volume of his plays and poems, which had been published in his life-time, was reprinted;...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...thee.' It is perhaps surpassed, however, by four lines from his Epitaph on Elizabeth LH : * * • • ' Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could...life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.' In 1640, the volume of his plays and poems, which had been published in his life-time, was reprinted;...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...THIRD GRACE. Since ye hear his falser play ; And that he is Venus' run-away. El'ITAPH ON F.LIZABETH LH marching, equall'd with one stroke Both her first-born...bleating gods. Bdial came last, than whom a spirit more ABRAHAM COWLEY /IIUHAM COWUT, a poet of considerable distinction, was born at London, in 1618. His...
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A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical ..., Volume 5

John Platts - 1826 - 882 pages
...and ingenuity of its turn, in which it is perhaps surpassed by that of four lines en Elizabeth LH . " Underneath this stone doth lie, As much beauty as...harbour give, • To more virtue than doth live." But such pieces are great rarities in his works; and father Ben is at this day little more than the...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

1826 - 310 pages
...Francis Beaumont. EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH LH WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life did harbour give To as much virtue as could live. If, at all, she had a fault, Leave it buried in this vault. Jonson. EPITAPH...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...gentle earth. EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH LH WOULD'ST thou hear what man can say In a little ? reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could...life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If, at all, she had a fault, Leave it buried in this vault. One name was Elizabeth, Th' other let it...
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