 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 portion soon spent — like the poor heir of Lynn...  The West of Scotland in History: Being Brief Notes Concerning Events, Family ... - Page 115by Joseph Irving - 1885 - 359 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...contemporaries may be gathered from the so-called epitaph on him by Lockhart — or, rather, the genial elegy : R. Chambers turned author while yet was no beard on his chin, And, whoever was out, or whoever was in, For your... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1904 - 884 pages
...contemporaries may be gathered from the so-called epitaph on him by Lockhart — or, rather, the genial elegy : turned author while yet was no beard on his chin, And, whoever was out, or whoever was in, Kor your... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1864 - 866 pages
...hia friend, John G. Lockhart : WALTON-ON-THAMES, AUGUST 1842. Here, early to bed, lies kind WILLIAM Who, with genius, wit, learning, life's trophies to win, Had neither great lord nor rich cit of hia kin, Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin ; So, his portion soon spent — like the poor... | |
 | Arthur Symons - English literature - 1909 - 362 pages
...delicious dogLatin. I must give Lockhart's epitaph, which is more adequate than any criticism : — ' Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, Who...portion soon spent, like the poor heir of Lynn, He tum'd author while yet was no beard on his chin; And whoever was out, or whoever was in, For your Tories... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 850 pages
...BLACKWOOD, WILLIAM, 1820, Letter to Maginn, William Blackwood and His Sons, ed. Oliphant, vol. I, p. 377. Here early to bed lies kind William Maginn, Who with...rich cit of his kin, Nor discretion to set himself np as to tin. So his portion soon spent, like the poor heir of Lynn, He turned author while yet was... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - English wit and humor - 1913 - 404 pages
...his life in an epitaph which half hides and half reveals tragedy under the mask of flippancy : '•' Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, Who,...portion soon spent, like the poor heir of Lynn — He turned author ere yet there was beard on his chin, And, whoever was out, or whoever was in, For your... | |
 | John Smyth Crone, Seamus O'Cassidy, Colm O Lochlainn - Ireland - 1913 - 262 pages
...is only on paper this epitaph by Lockhart exists. "Here, early to bed, hes kind William Maginn, Wiho with genius, wit, learning, life's trophies to win, Had neither great lord, nor rich oit of his kin, Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin; So, hie portion soon spent, like the poor... | |
 | Michael Monahan - Authors, Irish - 1914 - 296 pages
...Here is Lockhart's elegy on Maginn, memorable enough for its mixture of wit and truth and pathos : Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, Who...portion soon spent, like the poor heir of Lynn, He turned author while yet was no beard on his chin ; And whoever was out, or whoever was in, For the... | |
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