Epitaphs from the Old Burying-ground in Cambridge: With Notes

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J. Owen, 1845 - Всего страниц: 192
 

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Стр. 182 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Стр. 130 - My flesh shall slumber in the ground, Till the last trumpet's joyful sound; Then burst the chains with sweet surprise, And in my Saviour's image rise.
Стр. 1 - Go where the ancient pathway guides, See where our sires laid down Their smiling babes, their cherished brides, The patriarchs of the town; Hast thou a tear for buried love? A sigh for transient power? All that a century left above, Go, read it in an hour!
Стр. ii - WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode : nay, I had undertook To make another; which when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.
Стр. 180 - IN THE KING'S CHAPEL, AT BOSTON. [See p. 414.] Sacred to the memory of SAMUEL VASSAL, Esq., of LONDON, Merchant, one of the original proprietors of the lands of this country : a steady and undaunted Asserter of the Liberties of ENGLAND in 1628. He was the first who boldly refused to submit to the Tax of Tonnage and Poundage, an unconstitutional claim of the Crown • arbitrarily imposed : For which (to the ruin of his family) his goods were seized and his person imprisoned by the Star Chamber Court....
Стр. 178 - God was wonderfully present with him. He was a person that held very near communion with God; eminent in wisdom, piety, humility, love, selfdenial, and of a compassionate and tender heart; surpassing in public-spiritedness; a mighty man in prayer, and eminent at standing in the gap; he was zealous for order, and faithful in asserting the truth, against all oppugners of it.
Стр. 136 - THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST...
Стр. 70 - Laurea, nec non Senectuti Corona. Majestas et Authoritas in oculo, voce, vultu ; Benignitas et Humanitas in corde resederunt ; in Secundis moderatus, in adversis constant!
Стр. 9 - OAKESII, / cujus quod reliquum est / clauditur hoc tumulo; / Explorata integritate, summa morum gravitate, / Omniumque meliorum artium insigni peritia, / spectatissimi clarissimique omnibus modis / viri. / theologi merito suo celeberrimi, / concionatoris vere melliflui, / Cantab.
Стр. 2 - Xt she reignes, in heaven she sings Hosannas to her Lord, & King. «»»»*»** Death was ye key, wch let her out »»»*»»** ' Pale gastly death hath sent his shaft And hath by Chance nigh broke our heart Deaths volleys sound, sad stormes appeare, Mourning draws on : Poore Harverd feare, Least this sad stroke should be a signe Of suddeine future death to thine. JB 24.

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