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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 4202 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Epitaph. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Note 1. See Walton, Quotation 22. [back] |
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