 Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history: If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. Nor so ambitious am I as to frame A nest for my young praise in laurel tree : In truth I swear, I wish not there should be Graved in my epitaph a poet's name. Ne,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3901876Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - 1810 - 648 pages
...Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history : *• If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. . Nor so ambitious am I, as to frame A nest for my young praise in laurel-tree: In truth, I swear I wish not there should be Grav'd in mine epitaph a Poet's name: Ne,... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 pages
...verse seek fame, AVho seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee ! Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history : If thou praise not, all other praise is...In truth I swear, I wish not there should be Graved on my epitaph a poet's same : Nor if I would, could I just title make, That any laud thereof to me... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 378 pages
...thee ; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history : If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. Nor so ambitious am I as to frame A nest for my young...truth I swear I wish not there should be Graved in my epitaph a poet's name ; Nor, if I would, I could just title make, That any laud to me thereof should... | |
 | 1824 - 378 pages
...thee ; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history : If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. Nor so ambitious am I as to frame A nest for my young...truth I swear I wish not there should be Graved in my epitaph a poet's name ; Nor, if I would, I could just title make, That any laud to me thereof should... | |
 | 1824 - 378 pages
...thee ; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history : If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. Nor so ambitious am I as to frame A nest for my young...truth I swear I wish not there should be Graved in my epitaph a poet's name; Nor, if I would, I could just title make, That any laud to me thereof should... | |
 | 1833 - 240 pages
...thee ; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history : If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. Nor so ambitious am I, as to frame A nest for my young...tree : In truth I swear, I wish not there should be Grav'd in my epitaph a poet's name. Ne, if I would, I could just title make, That any laud to me thereof... | |
 | 1840 - 528 pages
...light, A rosy garland and a weary head. II. in. If thou jirai.se not, all other praise is shame. Nor so ambitious am I as to frame A nest for my young...tree : In truth I swear, I wish not there should be Grav'd in my epitaph a poet's name. IV. Stella! food of my thoughts, heart of my heart; Stella! whose... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...thee ; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history: It' thou praise not, all other praise is shame. Nor so ambitious am I, as to frame A nest for my young praise in.laurel tree : In truth I swear, I wish not there should he Graved in my epitaph a poet's name. Nc,... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 444 pages
...conceits — may be compared with those attributed to Shakspeare ; as, for instance, the following : — " Stella ! think not that I by verse seek fame, Who...tree : In truth I swear, I wish not there should be Grav'd on my epitaph a Poet's name : Ne, if I would, I could just title make, That any laud to me thereof... | |
 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 326 pages
...thee ; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history ! If thou praise not, all other praise is shame Nor so ambitious am I, as to frame A nest for my young praise in Lawrell-tree ; In truth I sweare, I wish not there should be Grav'd in mine epitaph a Poet's name.... | |
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