 | Nathaniel Bouton - 1839 - 332 sayfa
...we may appropriate a line from the amiable Cowper, as a tribute of our esteem. * Peace to the memory of a man of worth, A man of letters, and of manners too ; Of manners such as virtue always wears, When gay good humor dresses her in smiles.' " • The society was organized... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 sayfa
...nation's trust, The nurture of her youth, her dearest pledge. All are not such. I had a brother once— Peace to the mem'ry of a man of worth, A man of letters,...always wears, When gay Good-nature dresses her in smiles, lie graced a college,* in which order yet Was sacred; and was hoiiour'd, loved, and wept, By... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 358 sayfa
...nurture of her youth, her dearest pledge. All are not such. I had a brother once— Peace to the memory of a man of worth, A man of letters, and of manners...Virtue always wears When gay Good-nature dresses her in smiles. He graced a college,* in which order yet Was sacred; and was honour'd, loved, and wept, By... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 sayfa
...of her youth, her dearest pledge. All are not such. I had a brother once— 780 Peace to the memory of a man of worth, A man of letters, and of manners...Of manners sweet as Virtue always wears, When gay good-natured dresses her in smiles. He grac'da college,* in which order yet 785 Was sacred ; and was... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 166 sayfa
...of her youth, her dearest pledge. All are not such. I had a brother once— 78) Peace to the memory of a man of worth, A man of letters, and of manners...Of manners sweet as Virtue always wears, When gay good-natured dresses her in smiles. He grac'da college,* in which order yet 78) Was sacred ; and was... | |
 | William Goodman - 1843 - 342 sayfa
...; but he died drinking sack, at Surat, in the East Indies, 1617, of the flux. " Peace to the memory of a man of worth, A man of letters, and of manners too." COWPER. Purchas and Terry were his tent-mates. " He was the whetstone of the wits of his day ;" " The... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 sayfa
...like to meet with from my brother-writers. Tatler, No. 21. All are not such. I had a brother once—- Peace to the mem'ry of a man of worth, A man of letters,...always wears, When gay good-nature dresses her in smiles. Cowper. The Tatk, book ii. He is to be commended as having fewer artifices of disgust than... | |
 | William Cowper - 1845 - 394 sayfa
...nurture of her youth, her dearest pledge. All are not such. I had a brother oncePeace to the memory of a man of worth, A man of letters, and of manners...Virtue always wears When gay Good-nature dresses her in smiles. He graced a college,* in which order yet Was sacred; and was honour'd, loved, and wept By more... | |
 | Clara Moore - 1845 - 162 sayfa
...agreeable old gentlemen that could possibly be met with. He was " A man of letters, and of manners too I Of manners sweet, as virtue always wears, When gay good-nature dresses her in smiles." Though he had numbered threescore years and ten, he was as active as a young man: he had an... | |
 | George Oliver - 1845 - 438 sayfa
...had so well taught the art of dying to others, was well prepared to meet death. Peace to the memory of a man of worth, A man of Letters and of manners too. His precious remains were conveyed to the Parish Cemetery, and strange to say, with military honors!... | |
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Peace to the mem'ry of a man of worth, A man of letters, and of manners too, Of manners sweet as virtue always wears, When gay good-nature dresses her in 
