Antiente epitaphes, from A.D 1250 to A.D. 1800, collected by T.F. Ravenshaw

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148 ページ - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
164 ページ - THIS thing, in life, will raise some jealousy ; Here all three lie together lovingly : But from embraces, here no pleasure flows, Alike are here all human joys and woes. Here Sarah's chiding John no longer hears, And old John's rambling Sarah no more fears ; A period's come to all their toilsome lives, The good man's quiet, — still are both his wives.
182 ページ - But virtue rears the eternal monument. What more than these can tombs or tombstones pay? But here's the sunset of a tedious day : These two asleep are: I'll but be undress'd And so to bed : pray wish us all good rest.
167 ページ - Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love.
127 ページ - Dam'd tyrant! can't prophaner blood suffice ' Must priests that offer be the sacrifice? Go tell the genii that in Hades lye, Thy triumphs o'er this sacred Calvary; Till some just Nemesis avenge our cause, And force this kill-priest to revere good laws...
104 ページ - Witty above her sexe, but that's not all, Wise to Salvation was good Mistris Hall, Something of Shakespere was in that, but this Wholy of him with whom she's now in blisse. Then, passenger, ha'st ne're a teare, To weepe with her that wept with all? That wept, yet set herselfe to chere, Them up with comforts cordiall. Her Love shall live, her mercy spread, When thou hast ne're a teare to shed.
139 ページ - That which a being was, What is it ? show ; That being which it was, it is not now ; To be what 'tis, is not to be, you see ; That which now is not, shall a being be.
186 ページ - Even then he was easily set right again. He had the art of disposing his time so well, that his hours glided away in one continual round of pleasure and delight, till an unlucky minute put a period to his existence. He departed this life Nov.
77 ページ - Marya Arundell — Man a dry Laurel Man to the marigold compar'd may bee, Men may be liken'd to the laurell tree : Both feede the eye — both...
142 ページ - On a gravestone in the churchyard of Great Wolford : — " Here old JOHN RANDALL lies, Who, counting from his tale, Lived three-score years and ten, Such virtue was in ale. Ale was his meat, Ale was his drink, Ale did his heart revive. — And if he could have drunk his ale He still had been alive.

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