 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 Seiten
...StptembirSth, 1751— Dial, ШЛ October 1771. No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, " No atoriCd urn nor animated bust ;" This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her ¡wet's dust. On the other side of the Stone is as fallows : ** By special grant of the Managers to.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 374 Seiten
...— " HERE LIES ROBERT FERGUSSON, POET, " Born, September 5th, 1751— Died, 16th October, 1774. " No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied...Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust." On the other side of the stone is as follows : " By special grant of the managers to Robert Burns,... | |
 | 1813 - 148 Seiten
...on which are inscribed these affecting lines: — " No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, Nor storied urn, nor animated bust : This simple stone...Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her Poet's dust." On the east side of the church is the large and elegant CANONGATE BURGH SCHOOL, Erected in 1836, by... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 Seiten
...HKltF, LIES ROBERT FEROOSSON, POST. Born September Sth, 1750.— Died 18th October, 1774. No sculptur'd marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor...Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her Poet's dust. FOR ROBERT AIKEN, ESQ. KNOW thou, О stranger to the fame Of this much lov'd, much honour'd name '... | |
 | 1844 - 742 Seiten
...and caused the following lines, to be engraved upon it: — No sculptured marble here, nor pompons lay — " No storied urn, nor animated bust," This...Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust. As may readily be supposed, the occasional effusions of a youth of twenty-three, are not free from... | |
 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...No sculptured marhle here, nor pompous lay " No storiecl urn nor auimated hust;" This simple stnlie directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust. On the other side íif lke Stone is as follows : " Нy special grant of the Man-tgers to Hohe rt Burns,... | |
 | James Marshall - 1846 - 180 Seiten
...the stone he inscribed — HERE LIES ROBERT FERGUSSOX, POET, Born Sept. 5, 1751, Died 16th Oct. 1774. No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, No storied...Scotia's way, To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust. No. 33. — SAMUEL CLARK, Organist of Cowgate Chapel. On Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads... | |
 | 1847 - 486 Seiten
...ROBERT FERGUSSON, Poet, Born Sept. 5tli, 1751 — Died ICth Got., 1774. No sculptur'd marble hero, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn, nor animated bust,"...Scotia's way, To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust." Tannahill, the " weaver chiel," who came into existence in 1774, and voluntarily hurried himself out... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 Seiten
...LIES ROBERT FBRCUSSO.V, 1'OET. Born September sili, I7M.— Died Hiili October, 1574. No sculptur'd marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor...directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er lier Poet's dust. FOR ROBERT AIKEN, ESQ. KNOW thou, О stranger to the fame Of this much lov'd, much... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 Seiten
...fame." The petition was granted; and the stone was laid with this inscription upon it, by Burns :— " No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, No storied...Scotia's way, To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust." Burns was now meditating a return to his home. He had been in Edinburgh more than five months. His... | |
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No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust. 
