 To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear ; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.  Select British Classics - Page 1831803Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...draw near; Here lies the friend moat lov'd, the son most dear : Who ne'er knew joy, but friendahip He had d - in 11- r tell wh.it Harcourt cannot speak. Oh ! let thy once-lov'd friend inscribe thy atone, And with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...Ozfordihire, 1720. To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near ; Here lies the friend most lov'cl, the son most dear: Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or (rave his father grief bui when he died. How vain is reason ! eloquence how weak ! If Pope must tell... | |
 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 390 pages
...Chancellor Harcourt; at the Church of Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire, 1720." " To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most lov'd,...Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak. Oh let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone, And with a father's sorrows mix his own!" From Grose's Antiquities,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...OXFORDSHIRE 1720. To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art ! draw near Here lies the friend most loved, caves, ( For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves...obcy'd, And even the elements a tyrant sway'd ! In vain Pape must tell what HARCOURT cannot speak. Oh let thy once-loved friend inscribe thy stone And, with... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1840 - 438 pages
...which Pope, at the request of Lord Harcourt, wrote the following epitaph : To this sad shrine, who e'er thou art, draw near : Here lies the friend most lov'd...son most dear, Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship must divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died. How vain is reason — eloquence how weak,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...HARCOURT, oí the Church of StanionHarcourt in Oxfordthirc, 1720. To this ead shrine, whoe'er ihou art, draw near ; Here lies the friend most lov'd....son most dear : Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship mieht divide, Or cave his father grief bin when ho died. How vain is reason ¡ eloquence how weak !... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...est. In the epitaph upon young Mr. Harcourt (in which he introduces his own name, Pope,) he writes— Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief, but when he died. Milton, in an epitaph on a young person, who died of a cold, has a conceit, that Winter wanting to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 548 pages
...where a monument is erected to his memory, with the beautiful inscription by Pope, beginning— , " To this sad shrine, who'er thou art ! draw near !...might divide, Or gave his father grief, but when he dy'd." —Lord Harcourt had been Governor of George IN. when Prince of Wales. In 17CI be was nominated... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 pages
...to his memory, with the beautiful inscription by Pope, beginning — " To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art ! draw near ! Here lies the friend most lov'd,...might divide, Or gave his father grief, but when he dy'd." — Lord Harcourt had been Governor of George III. when Prince of Wales. In 1761 he was. nominated... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 pages
...CHANCELLOR HARCOURT, At Ihe Church of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire, 1720. To this sad Shrine, whoe'er thou art ! draw near, Here lies the Friend most lov'd,...Pope must tell what HARCOURT cannot speak. Oh let thy once-lov'd Friend inscribe thy Stone, And, with a Father's sorrows mix his own ! Ver. 1. To this sad... | |
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