 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...friend, John Q. Lockhart : WALTON-ON-TIIAMES, AUGUST 1842. Here, early to bed, lies kind WILLIAM MAQOTN, Who, with genius, wit, learning, life's trophies to win, Had neither great lord nor ricE cit of his kin, Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin ; So, his portion soon spent — like... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...churchyard of Waltonon-the-Thames. The following epitaph was written for him by Mr. Lockhart : — " Here, early to bed, lies kind WILLIAM MAGINN, Who,...portion soon spent (like the poor heir of Lynn) He turn'd author, ere yet there was beard on his chin — And, whoever was out, or whoever was in, For... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1860 - 568 pages
...lamented JG Lockhart, •which has never, I believe, been published. " Waltnn-on-Thama, August, 1842. " Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, Who,...his portion soon spent, like the poor heir of Lynn, Ho turned author, 'ere yet there was beard on his chin ; And whoever was out, or whoever was iu. For... | |
 | Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley - 1866 - 396 pages
...burlesque epitaph on Miss Landon's murderer, written by the then editor of the "Quarterly Review : " — " Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, Who...his kin, Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin. No, his portion soon spent — like the poor heir of Lynn, He turned author, ere yet there was beard... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 pages
...be forgiven, for fame : He asked, and hoped through Christ. Do thou the same. S, TC ON DR. MAGINN.'" HERE, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, Who,...his kin, Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin ; 127 Dr. Magin, a contributor to " Blackwood's Magazine" almost from its commencement, whilst " Frazer's... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1873 - 662 pages
...of his habits : — WALTON-OIT-THAMES, AUGUST, 1842. Here, early to bed, lies kind WILLIAM MAOISN, Who, with genius, wit, learning, life's trophies to...So, his portion soon spent, like the poor heir of LynnHe turned author ere yet there was beard on his chin, And, whoever was oiit, or whoever was in,... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Scotland - 1885 - 378 pages
...Maginn has been much admired for its neatness. It is dated simply — WALTON-ON-THAMES, AUG., 1842. Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, Who,...portion soon spent (like the poor heir of Lynn), He turn'd author, ere yet there was beard on his chin — And, whoever was out, or whoever was in, For... | |
 | William Maginn - 1885 - 406 pages
...memoir may fitly close with the epitaph, full at once of pathos and of wit, written by Lockhart : " Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, Who...portion soon spent, like the poor heir of Lynn, He turn'd author while yet was no beard on his chin ; And whoever was out, or whoever was in, For your... | |
 | William Maginn - 1885 - 408 pages
...close with the epitaph, full at once of pathos and of wit, written by Lockhart: " Here, early to beH, lies kind William Maginn, Who with genius, wit, learning,...portion soon spent, like the poor heir of Lynn, He lurn'd author while yet .was no beard on his chin ; And whoever was out, or whoever was in, For your... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - Epitaphs - 1888 - 578 pages
...Walton-on-Thames, ob. 1842, set. 48 :— WILLIAM MAGINN, LLD Here, early to bed, lies kind WILLIAM MAonnr, Who, with genius, wit, learning, Life's trophies to...portion soon spent (like the poor heir of Lynn) He turn'd author, ere yet there was beard on his chin, And, whoever was out, or whoever was in, For your... | |
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Here, early to bed, lies kind WILLIAM MAGINN, Who, with genius, wit, learning, Life's trophies to win, Had neither great Lord nor rich cit of his kin, Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin ; So his... 
