Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear
| First Line | Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear |
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| Author | William Mason |
| Description | Epitaph [Death, afterlife; Courtship, marriage]. Transcribed from Mason, William. "On the Death of his Wife." Elegies. By C. Shaw, -. Pratt, R. Jago, Dr. Wolcot, A. L. Barbauld, G. Dyer, &c, 1798, p. 36. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0118417106. |
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Transcription
Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear;
Take that best gift which heav'n so lately gave:
To Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling care,
Her faded form; she bow'd to taste the wave,
And died. Does youth, does beauty read the line?
Does sympathetic fear their breast alarm?
Speak, dead Maria, breath a strain divine,
Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have pow'r to charm,
Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee;
Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move;
And if so fair, from vanity so free,
So firm in friendship, and so fond in love;
Tell them, tho' 'tis an awful thing to die,
('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod,
Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high,
And bids the pure in heart behold their God.
Beinecke Osborn c116
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
p. 161.
Local title: On Mrs Mason who died of a consumption at Bristol Wells
Attributed author: her Husband.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Beinecke Osborn c156
| Title | Amusements 1768-69 |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
pp. 206–207.
Local title: Sacred to the Memory of Mary the Daughter of William Sherman Esqr of Kingston upon Hull, & Wife of the Reverent William Mason, who died March the 27th, 1767: aged 28 Years.
Attributed author: Wm Mason.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Beinecke Osborn c341
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Page: 38-39
Local title: Epitaph on Mrs. Mason
Attributed author: Unattributed.
Adaptation: N/A
Other variants:N/A
Other: N/A
Beinecke Osborn c595
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Page: 38
Local Title: An Epigraph on Mrs Mason
Attributed Author: n/a
Adaptation: N/A
Other Variants: N/A
Other: Dated January 12 - 1789
Beinecke Osborn c662
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Page: 7
Local title: Epitaph
Attributed author: Mason
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Beinecke Osborn d49
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
p. 328
Local title: Mason's Epitaph on his Wife, in the cathedral of Bristol.
Attributed author: Mason.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: The four last lines ("Tell them though 'tis an awful thing... behold their God'.") are annotated: "These four last lines, perhaps, the best of the whole, were written by Gray with whom Mason, at the time of his Wife's death, was extremely intimate."
Beinecke Osborn d80
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Page: 48-49
Local title: n/a
Attributed author: Mason
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Beinecke Osborn fc132
| Title | Poems on Several Occasions; Collected from D [...] |
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| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
p. 202.
Local title: Epitaph on Mrs. Hawkesworth.
Attributed author: Dr. Hawkesworth.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Clark MS 1984.001
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Clark Library |
Folio: n/a
Local title: An Elegy by the Revd Mr Mason of York on the Death of his Wife who died whilst drinking a Glass of Water at Bristol Wells.
Attributed author: Revd Mr Mason.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Clark MS 1984.004
| Title | A common place book. |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Clark Library |
p. 136.
Local title: Elegy—Written by Mr. Mason, on the death of his Wife, who died whilst drinking a Glass of Water at Bristol-Wells.
Attributed author: Mr. Mason.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Clark MS 2015.014
| Title | Epitaphs. |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Clark Library |
Rae family, ca. 1800.
151 pages.
Collection of epitaphs from gravestones and published sources.
Folger MS M.a.160
| Title | A Collection of Poems from Various Authours. JB |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
p. 43.
Local title: An Elegant Mont. with this Inscription is erected in Bristol Cathedral in Memory of Mrs. Mason.
Attributed author: William Mason.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Folger MS M.a.179
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
p. 143.
Local title: On Mrs. Mason's monument in the cathedral at Bristol.
Attributed author: her Husband.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Folger MS M.a.180
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
p. 185.
Local title: Epitaph. Written by Mr Mason, On the monument of his Wife in Bristol Cathedral.
Attributed author: Mr Mason.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Folger MS M.a.182
| Title | A miscellaneous collection in prose and vers [...] |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
p. 59.
Local title: On the death of his Wife.
Attributed author: Lord Littleton
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Folger MS W.a.271
| Title | Poetry |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
p. 8.
Local title: Epitaph on Mrs Mason in the Cathedral at Bristol.
Attributed author: n/a
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: Seems to use "?" for both "!" and "?"
Other: n/a
Houghton MS Hyde 35 (5)
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Houghton Library |
p. 270
Local title: "These following lines have erroneously been given to various authors, but it is unquestionably the production of Mr. Mason, whose lady died of a consumption at Bristol Hotwells."
Attributed author: Mr. Mason
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Leeds Brotherton Lt 100
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Brotherton Library |
p. 104v.
Local title: Mrs. Mason's Epitaph.
Attributed author: W. Mason.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Leeds Brotherton Lt 100
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Brotherton Library |
p. 78.
Local title: Mrs. Mason's Epitaph.
Attributed author: n/a
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Leeds Brotherton Lt 104
| Title | Poems of various kinds by the late Revd. Pet [...] |
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| Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Brotherton Library |
ff. 93–94r.
Local title: An Epitaph upon Mrs Mason, who died at the Hot-Wells, Bristol.
Attributed author: her Husband the Reverend William Mason, author of "Elfrida and Caractacus."
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
Leeds Brotherton Lt 99
| Title | Old Songs & other Poems. |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Brotherton Library |
ff. 96v–97r.
Local title: Epitaph on Mrs Mason at Bristol.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 757
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
| Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
p. 49
Local title: Epitaph by the Revd: Mr Mason upon his Wife, who died and was buried at Bristol.
Attributed author: the Revd: Mr Mason.
Adaptation: n/a
Other variants: n/a
Other: n/a