 My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at...  Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities - Página 41por Edwin Waugh - 1855 - 260 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Archer Philip Crouch - 1900 - 138 páginas
...1768, and whose monument bears the following lugubrious inscription : — " My sledge and hammer hath declined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My...in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My last nail's driven, my work is done." The story of West Ham Park has been told by Dr.... | |
 | Herbert Winckworth Tompkins - 1902 - 384 páginas
...Elliott, clerk and smith of the parish, who died in 1795 : — " My Sledge and Hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct,...in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My rusted corpse is here at rest, My soul . . ak... | |
 | Henry Rand Hatfield - 1904 - 518 páginas
...the tomb of one William Braithwaite, blacksmith, who died in 1757: My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my bones are laid ; My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done, My rusted corpse... | |
 | Frederic William Unger - 1904 - 216 páginas
...thee. DB. ABEL EVANS, circa 1700. Over the grave of a Shropshire blacksmith : My sledge and anvil lie declined, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my body's laid : My coal is out, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1904 - 460 páginas
...knack of mortuary verse, is this on a Felpham blacksmith : — My sledge and hammer lie reclined ; My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct ; my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone ; The nails are driven —... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1907 - 494 páginas
...epitaphs in which the eighteenth century seems especially to have delighted — "~My sledge and anvil I've declined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind ;...extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is lay'd ; My coals are spent, my irons gone ; My nails are drove, my work is done." Mr. Thomas Clampard,... | |
 | Henry Rand Hatfield - 1907 - 408 páginas
...the tomb of one William Braithwaite, blacksmith, who died in 1757: My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my bones are laid; My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done, My rusted corpse... | |
 | 1908 - 204 páginas
...included in his published writings, is usually attributed to him : — "My anvil and my hammer lie declined; My bellows, too, have lost their wind; My...my iron is gone, My last nail driven, and my work done. Tim Bobbin's prose works must be read in their entirety to be properly appreciated. Of his rhymes... | |
 | Julia de Wolf Addison - 1922 - 564 páginas
...nine years." A blacksmith's tombstone is inscribed as follows : " My sledge and hammer lie reclined My bellows, too, have lost their wind, My fire's extinct,...forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coals are spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done." Miracle plays used to be given... | |
 | Godfrey Isaac Howard Lloyd - 1913 - 540 páginas
...apply to hand-forgers as a class the words of an old epitaph : " My sledge and hammer lie reclined ; My bellows, too, have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my bones are laid." ' The use of mechanical stamps for silver and other soft articles goes back to the... | |
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