 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 414 pàgines
...recommend you to show to any of the despisers of dogs : — " When some proud son of man returns to earth Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's...pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below. But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 414 pàgines
...recommend you to show to any of the despisers of dogs : — " When some proud son of man returns to earth Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's...pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below. But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 pàgines
...thou look'st all I should have been, and was not. Inscription on the lion, of a Newf. Dog V. 5 f. : When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been. Vgl. auch Lara I. 9, V. 11 ff. und Proph. of D. IIl, V. 163 ff. Es fragt sich nur, wie die Worte nor... | |
 | Joaquín Costa y Martínez - 1897 - 240 pàgines
...epitafios que aplican al muerto el sabido cliché: «buen padre, fiel esposo, honrado ciudadano, etc.»: «When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, not what he mas, but what he should had leen: cuando todo ha concluido, léese encima de la sepultura, no lo que... | |
 | Oscar Tully Shuck - 1901 - 1236 pàgines
...strange man! Perhaps he might have desired us to repeat them here : When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The...exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rest below ; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1901 - 172 pàgines
...appreciation of his public services. England's cynic poet said, in speaking of eulogies and epitaphs: When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been. Such is not the truth with respect to our tributes to our departed friend, because in his ardent love... | |
 | 1902 - 252 pàgines
...May 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey, Nov. 18, 1808. EPITAPH When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The...sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urn records who rest below ; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he... | |
 | John Kerr - 1902 - 422 pàgines
...after we had left it we ever felt the deepest sense of gratitude." The lines — " When all is over on the tomb is seen Not what he was, but what he should have been," are not true of Mr Fraser. The tablet and Mr Gray's speech furnish a plain unvarnished record. This... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pàgines
...Abbey, 1808. INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG WHEN some proud son of man returns to Byron But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pàgines
...Abbey, 1808. INSCRIPTION iMENT OF A DOG ON THE MONUNEWFOUNDLAND WHEN some proud son of man returns to flin company whut he should have been. But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost... | |
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WHEN some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below • When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have... 
