 near the village of Dauphigny ; this would suit me nicely ; you know it well, for I have often said that I should like to be buried there ; and let me beg of you, as you value your old friend, not to suffer any pomp to be used at my funeral ; nor any...  The Christian Life, Social and Individual - Страница 152написао/ла Peter Bayne - 1855 - 528 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1908 - 502 страница
...:* " Suffer no pomp to be used at my funeral, no monument to mark the spot where I am laid ; but put me quietly in the earth, place a sundial over my grave, and let me be forgotten." The poet Whittier, in a characteristic verse, says of the sundial : With warning hand I mark Time's... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1908 - 548 страница
...down:* "Suffer no pomp to be used at my funeral, no monument to mark the spot where I am laid ; but put me quietly in the earth, place a sundial over my grave, and let me be forgotten." The poet Whittier, in a characteristic verse, says of the sundial : With warning hand I mark Time's... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1910 - 358 страница
...took the disease, which terminated fatally on January 20, 1790. " Give me no monument," he had said, " but lay me quietly in the earth ; place a sundial over my grave, and let me be forgotten." In 1795 Haydn was well stricken in years, and might have rested on his laurels. But so far from this... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris - 1910 - 532 страница
...virulent and infectious fever, he asked for no pompous mausoleum to enshrine, his remains, simply saying "Lay me quietly in the earth, place a sundial over my grave, and let me be forgotten." Shall John Howard ever be forgotten? Hero-worshippers like Mr. Carlyle may forget him, for he flourished... | |
 | Frederick James Gould - 1914 - 208 страница
...Russia in the year 1789, at the age of sixty-four ; and, as he lay dying, he said to a companion : " Lay me quietly in the earth ; place a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten." No ; he shall never be forgotten. You and I will think with love and respect of John Howard, who was... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 264 страница
...my burial; nor any monument, nor monumental inscription whatsoever to mark where I am laid ; deposit me quietly in the earth, place a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten." , A letter at this time arriving from England, containing pleasing information of his son, it was read... | |
 | 1831 - 692 страница
...monument, or monumental inscription, to mark the place of his interment. " Lay me quietly," said he, " in the earth, place a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten." Forgotten ! The memory of his philanthrophy will last, when not only that sun-dial, with every other... | |
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