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“Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.”
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- Source:
- The Epitaph.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8c24a3babf0b115ee8e6474cc94ebf5b0accc055b169b74c86a32b2bb99cbd21
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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