 | John Timbs - Historic buildings - 1872 - 598 pages
...the beautiful tablet is appended Hayley's fine epitaph, concluding with the lines — " Who joined pure faith to strong poetic powers, Who, in reviving...on one book his troubled mind to rest, And rightly deemed the Book of God the best." The allusion in the last line is to the aneedote related by Doctor... | |
 | Charles Fleet - 1878 - 314 pages
...For this the ashes of the Bard require Who touched the tenderest notes of Pity's lyre ; Who joined pure faith to strong poetic powers; Who, in reviving...on one Book his troubled mind to rest, And rightly deemed the Book of God the best." In penning these fine lines,Hayley rose to the level of his theme,... | |
 | Charles Fleet - Sussex (England) - 1878 - 318 pages
...For this the ashes of the Bard require Who touched the tenderest notes of Pity's lyre ; Who joined pure faith to strong poetic powers ; Who, in reviving...on one Book his troubled mind to rest, And rightly deemed the Book of God the best." In penning these fine lines,Hayley rose to the level of his theme,... | |
 | John Rouse Bloxam, Magdalen College (University of Oxford) - Oxford (England) - 1879 - 466 pages
...fond memorial to his talents raise. For this the ashes of a Bard require, Who touch 'd the teriderest notes of Pity's lyre ; Who join'd pure faith to strong...rest, And rightly deem'd the Book of God the best." We cannot conclude this memoir without giving Dr. Johnson's descriptive notice of him : " Collins was... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 772 pages
...best." This circumstance is recorded on hin tomb. He join'd pure faith to strong poetic powers, And in reviving reason's lucid hours, Sought on one book...rest, And rightly deem'd the book of God the best. At Chichester, tradition has preserved some striking and affecting occurrences of his last days ; he... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...talents raise. For this the ashes of a bard require, Who touoh'd the tenderest notes of pity's lyre i Who join'd pure faith to strong poetic powers ; Who,...hours, Sought on one book his troubled mind to rest, An»l rightly deom'd the book of God the best." K natural uud pleasing ; but a sweeter harp of our... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - Private libraries - 1888 - 606 pages
...Flaxman's Monument to his memory, in the Cathedral, is a long Epitaph closing with the lines : — " Who join'd pure faith to strong poetic powers ; "...rest, " And rightly deem'd the Book of God the best." It is said " no journal or magazine recorded the death of the forgotten poet, though " Goldsmith only... | |
 | English periodicals - 1896 - 820 pages
...the hapless bard not incorrectly as one Who touched the tenderest notes of pity's lyre, Who joined pure faith to strong poetic powers, Who, in reviving...on one book his troubled mind to rest, And rightly deemed the Book of God the Best ! On one occasion Dr. Johnson visited the poor insane poet. " I have... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...raise. For this the ashes of a bard require, Who touched the tenderest notes of pity's lyre; Who joined pure faith to strong poetic powers; Who, in reviving...on one book his troubled mind to rest, And rightly deemed the book of God the best. — HAYLEY, WILLIAM AND SARGENT, JOHN, Inscription on Collins's Monument.... | |
 | Ian C. Hannah - Sussex (England) - 1912 - 484 pages
...For this the ashes of the Bard require Who touched the tenderest notes of Pity's lyre ; Who joined pure faith to strong poetic powers ; Who, in reviving...on one Book his troubled mind to rest, And rightly deemed the Book of God the best." In the old churchyard at Selsey, over the restingplace of two boys... | |
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Who touch'd the tenderest notes of pity's lyre ; Who join'd pure faith to strong poetic powers ; Who, in reviving reason's lucid hours, Sought on one book his troubled mind to rest, And rightly deem'd the book of God the best. 
