The Monumental Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard of S. Mary, Lewisham

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Charles North, 1889 - 86 sidor

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Sida 69 - Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now ! E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Sida 42 - He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time: For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.
Sida 73 - Convocation ; whose piety was real and rational, bis charity great and universal, fruitful in acts of mercy, and in all good works. His learning was elegant and comprehensive, his conversation polite and delicate ; grave, without preciseness, facetious, without levity. The good Christian, the solid Divine, and the fine Gentleman, in him were happily united ; who, though amply qualified for the highest honours of his sacred function, Yet was content with only deserving them.
Sida 27 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd ; he shall gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Sida 13 - Now a cold tenant does he lie Of this dark cell, all hush'd his song: While Friendship bends with streaming eye, As by his grave she wends along; On his cold clay lets fall a holy tear, And cries, "Though mute, there is a poet here.
Sida 73 - Blame not, ye calm observers of distress, A mother sorrowing to a fond excess, True filial excellence of life so brief Claims the full tribute of no common grief; Here friendship, form'd by nature's singles!
Sida 46 - One who dare stand by me when in deep distress. And then his love and friendship most express.
Sida 33 - Oct. 25, 1763, aged 64 | He was a man of inflexible integrity and one | of the best bred men in England, which, with a happy genius for poetry procured him | the friendship of several noblemen...
Sida 13 - No titled birth had he to boast ; Son of the desert, Fortune's child. Yet, not by frowning Fortune crost, The muses on his cradle smil'd.
Sida 65 - His sons are again authentically mentioned in 1079, when they slew Urgency ap Sitsylht, a Welsh noble. Tudor Trevor and Rhys Sais lived centuries before the comr mon use of coat armor, but later generations obligingly endowed them with arms. To Tudor Trevor was assigned — Per bend sinister, ermine and erminois, over all a lion rampant or — and to Rhys Sais — Ermine, a lion rampant azure. Both of these coats, or slight variations of them, were borne or quartered by many Welsh and border families,...

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