 | 1835 - 564 páginas
...But why go on ? why talk of her ? — rather adopt the well-known lines of the eminent Barnes — " She was But words are wanting to say what : Think what a girl should be, — And she was that." Well, then, where the roses blow, and the lilies bow their heads,... | |
 | Scotch haggis - 1822 - 344 páginas
...desert in me ; But now by sight, too glorious light For mortal eyes to see. ON JEAN ALIAN, ARRROATH. She was — but words are wanting To say what—- Think what a wife should be, and She was that. WRITTEN BY JOHN ROBE, ON HIS SPOUSE[IN FORFAR CHURCH-YARD.] Here lies my wife, whose age did far Above... | |
 | 1823 - 450 páginas
...lies Who for a flower By water dies In one sad hour. French Katherine, Buried Sept. IB, 1886. ANOTHER. She was • But words are wanting To say what Think what a wife shonld Be And she was that. IN I.YSTON CIIIJRCH-YAIiU. Here liclh the body of William Needham. Need... | |
 | Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 páginas
...wife, Ne'er a greater blessing to man was given, Nor greater loss, except the loss of heaven. 111. She was — but words are wanting to say what—- Think what a mfe should be ; — and she was that. IV. Death parts the dearest lover for a while, And makes those... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 páginas
...whitest But why go on? why talk of her? — rather adopt the well-known lines of the eminent Barnes — " She was But words are wanting to say what : Think what a girl should be, — And she was that." Well, then, where the roses blow, and the lilies bow their heads,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1836 - 232 páginas
...But why go on ? why talk of her '? — rather adopt the well-known lines of the eminent Barnes — " She was But words are wanting to say what : Think what a girl should be,— And she was that." Well, then, where the roses blow, and the lilies bow their heads,... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1840 - 1002 páginas
...why go on ? — why talk of her I — rather adopt the well-known lines of the eminent Barnes — « She was But words are wanting to say what : Think what a girl should be, — — — — And she was that." Well, then, where the roses blow, and the lilies... | |
 | William Henry Foote - 1850 - 582 páginas
...the side of the church, erected by a tender husband for his wife, who died in her sixtieth year : " She was — but words are wanting to say what : Think what a WIFE should be, and she was that." The longest epitaph would not have been so striking and significant to me : and it brought my Chara... | |
 | 1852 - 1236 páginas
...posterity for more than fifty years backwards." On Jean Allan, wife of John Houston, at Arbroath : — " She was — but words are wanting To say what : Think what a wife should be, and She was that." Gay's epitaph on himself — " Life's a jest, and all things show it ; 1 thought so once, and now I... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 páginas
...posterity for more than fifty years backwards." On Jean Allan, wife of John Houston, at Arbroath : — " where the oriole hung her swaying nest, By every light wind like a censer swung ; "Where sang t Gay's epitaph on himself — " Life's a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I... | |
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She was, — but words are wanting to say what ; Think what a wife should be, and she was that !" Pope was fond of writing epitaphs. 
