 | Wilson Dallam Wallis - 1927 - 458 pàgines
...political, or age status of the deceased. A visit to a cemetery discloses more than the epitaphs proclaim. When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been — yet the funeral rites and the type of monument tell a truer story. The uniform of soldiers is based... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pàgines
...November 2, 1808. INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. 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:... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 pàgines
...Boatswain was as condemnatory of man as laudatory of the dog. 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:... | |
 | Matthew Iley, J. M. Millingen - 1825 - 448 pàgines
...at Newfoundland, May 1803, And died at , Nov. 18, 1808.' . ' When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The...When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he has, but what he should have been. But the poor DOG, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome,... | |
 | Iowa State Medical Society - 1922 - 554 pàgines
...(Byron) "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog." "When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The...storied urns record who rests below; When all is done, then upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been." There is no man so devoid... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 820 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... | |
 | Jack London - 2007 - 267 pàgines
...(Appears in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London (1993)) When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory but upheld by birth, The Sculptor's...exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who sets below; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been.... | |
 | 1823 - 778 pàgines
...Newfoundland, May, 1803, and died at Newstead, Nov. 18, 1808. 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.... | |
 | 1882 - 114 pàgines
...proverb in question." On reading the inscription we were reminded of the following lines : — " Now all is done, upon the tomb is seen Not what he was but what he should have been." The first number of a quarterly periodical entitled " Peace and Goodwill " has been issued by Miss... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 848 pàgines
...have entertained a kindly feeling towards these animals : — " When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of wo, And storied urns record who rests below ; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he... | |
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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... 
