 | Charles Fleet - Sussex (England) - 1878 - 318 pages
...Flaxman's monument to Collins in Chichester Cathedral) which are, perhaps, the finest he ever wrote : — " Ye who the merits of the dead revere, Who hold misfortune...hapless name Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though Nature gave him, and though Science taught, The fire of Fancy and the reach of Thought, Severely... | |
 | Charles Fleet - 1878 - 314 pages
...finest he ever wrote :— " Ye who the merits of the dead revere, Who hold misfortune sacred—genius dear— Regard this tomb, where Collins" hapless name Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though Nature gave him, and though Science taught, The fire of Fancy and the reach of Thought, Severely... | |
 | John Rouse Bloxam, Magdalen College (University of Oxford) - Oxford (England) - 1879 - 466 pages
...arms. The inscription which was written by the poet Hayley and Mr. John Sargent is as follows : — " Ye who the merits of the dead revere, Who hold misfortune...hapless name, Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though nature gave him, and though science taught, The fire of fancy, and the reach of thought, Severely... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...in one another's arms, are the emblems of his genius and his life. The epitaph, by Hayley,i is i " Ye who the merits of the dead revere. Who hold misfortune...hapless name, Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though nature gave him, and though science taught The fire of fancy, and the reach of thought, Severely... | |
 | Sussex (England) - 1885 - 344 pages
...Sargent,— " Ye who the merits of the dead revere, Who hold misfortune's sacred genius dear, Begard this tomb ; where Collins' hapless name Solicits kindness with a double claim. Strangers to him, enamour'd of his lays, This fond memorial to his talents raise. For this the ashes... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - Epitaphs - 1888 - 578 pages
...improve, In scenes of perfect purity and love. In Chichester Church. Oh. 175C, at. 36:— WILLIAM COLLIKS. Tho' nature gave him, and tho' science taught The...of thought, Severely doom'd to penury's extreme, He paus'd in madd'ning pain, life's fev'rish dream : While rays of genius only serv'd to shew, The thick'ning... | |
 | William Collins - 1894 - 178 pages
...The inscription, which was written by the poet Hayley and Mr. John Sargent, is as follows :— " Yc who the merits of the dead revere, Who hold misfortune sacred, genius dear, Kegard this tomb, where Collins, hapless name,, Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though nature... | |
 | William Collins - 1898 - 234 pages
...Magazine, December, 1789. YE ! WHO THE MERITS OF THE DEAD REVERE, WHO HOLD MISFORTVNE SACRED, GENIVS DEAR, REGARD THIS TOMB! WHERE COLLINS, HAPLESS NAME! SOLICITS KINDNESS, WITH A DOVBLE CLAIM : THO' NATVRE GAVE HIM, AND THO* SCIENCE TAVGHT, THE FIRE OF FANCY, AND THE REACH OF THOVGHT,... | |
 | William Collins - 1898 - 236 pages
...Magazine, December, 1 789. YE ! WHO THE MERITS OF THE DEAD REVERE, WHO HOLD MISFORTVNE SACRED, GENIVS DEAR, REGARD THIS TOMB! WHERE COLLINS, HAPLESS NAME! SOLICITS KINDNESS, WITH A DOVBLE CLAIM : THO' NATVRE GAVE HIM, AND THO' SCIENCE TAVGHT, THE FIRE OF FANCY, AND THE REACH OF THOVGHT,... | |
 | William Collins - 1898 - 234 pages
...Magazine, December, 1789. YE ! WHO THE MERITS OF THE DEAD REVERE, WHO HOLD MISFORTVNE SACRED, GENIVS DEAR, REGARD THIS TOMB! WHERE COLLINS, HAPLESS NAME! SOLICITS KINDNESS, WITH A DOVBLE CLAIM : THO 1 NATVRE GAVE HIM, AND THO' SCIENCE TAVGHT, THE FIRE OF FANCY, AND THE REACH OF... | |
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Ye who the merits of the dead revere, Who hold misfortune sacred, genius dear, Regard this tomb, where Collins, hapless name, Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though nature gave him, and though science taught, The fire of fancy, and the reach of... 
