 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - Страниц: 610
...without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...EPITAPH. Alas ! poor MUNGO ! Happy wert thou hadst them known Thy own felicity. , Remote from the fierce bal'd eagle, Tyrant of thy native woods ; Thou... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - Страниц: 276
...without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us .give him one, in a monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...would look as if we were not affected, and to make rhymes, would seem trifling in sorrow. .SL.iSf POORMUJVGOf Happy wert thou, hadst thou known Thy own... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - Страниц: 520
...without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...would seem trifling in sorrow. EPITAPH. Alas ! poor MTJNGO ! Happy wert tbou hadst thou known Thy own felicity. Remote from the fierce bal'd eagle, Tyrant... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - Страниц: 584
...without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...would look as if we were not affected, and to make rhymes would seem trifling in sorrow. EPITAPH. Alas ! poor MUNGO ! Happy wert thou, hadst thou known... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - Страниц: 600
...without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...would look as if we were not affected, and to make rhymes would seem trifling in sorrow. EPITAPH. Alas ! poor MUNGO ! Happy wert thou, hadst thou known... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - Страниц: 668
...real protection, Yielding peace and plenty With security. The monumental style, he observed, being " neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...would look as if we were not affected, and to make rhymes would seem trifling in sorrow." No one has written such good familiar letters as Dr. Franklin.... | |
 | 1886 - Страниц: 994
...without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...would look as if we were not affected, and to make rhywes would seem trifling in sorrow. EPITAPH, ON THE LOSS OF AN AMERICAN SQUIRREL, WHO, ESCAPING FROM... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - Страниц: 768
...without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...would look as if we were not affected, and to make rhymes would seem trifling in sorrow. EPITAPH, ON THE LOSS OF AN AMERICAN SQUIRREL, WHO, ESCAPING FROM... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - Страниц: 562
...without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest...would look as if we were not affected, and to make rhymes would seem trifling in sorrow. EPITAPH. ON THE LOSS OF AN AMERICAN SQUIRREL. WHO, ESCAPING FROM... | |
 | Percy Sadler - 1876 - Страниц: 466
...thé monumental style and measure, which being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps thé most proper for grief, since to use common language would look as if we were not affected, and to make rhymes would seem trifling (1) with sorrows. Your affectionate friend, B. FRANKLIN (2). (1) To tri... | |
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As he had the honor of being, for his virtues, your favorite, he should not go like common skuggs, without an elegy or an epitaph. Let us give him one in the monumental style and measure, which, being neither prose nor verse, is perhaps the properest... 
