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Quotation from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
“Fair Science frown'd not on his humble Birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.”
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, The Epitaph, lines 119-120 (1751 first edition)
The Epitaph describes the young man as learned despite low birth and set apart by a melancholy temperament.
Citation: "Fair Science frown'd not on his humble Birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own." — Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, The Epitaph, lines 119-120 (1751 first edition). (id elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard-q7)
Portrait: Richard Bentley Elegy header, Bentley, Richard, Public domain.
