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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1824

5 stories in Sydney's papers

Poetry. on the Death of an Infant

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1824 · page 4

SLEEP, tittle Baby! sleep! Not in thy cradle bed, Not on thy mother's breast Henceforth shall be thy rest,…

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Death of the King of France

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1824 · page 2

The following Telegraphic Despatch, which arrived in town by an Extraordinary Express, on Friday morning, has at length removed all uncertainty respecting the dpath of Louis XVIII. and the accession of his brother Charles X. to…

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Poetry. an Extemporaneous Effusion, Occasioned by the Sudden Death of the Infant Son and Heir of a Friend, and Patron of the Writer. "Ostendunt terris hunc [?] fals, nec ultra Esse sinunt." VIRGIL

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 8 July 1824 · page 4

POWER, title, wealth—all most desired on earth, Lost babe! in blissful union crown'd thy birth; While thy sweet form such opening graces shared, Relenting death thy innocence had spared;…

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On the Death of Lord Byron

The Australian · Thursday 11 November 1824 · page 3

WHERE art thou man of might, thou grand in soul; Gone! like the vesper pageantry of heaven, Leaving a twilight gloom, sadly to roll Over the heart bereft; for thou wast given…

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Monody, on the Death of General Macquarie, Late Governor of New South Wales

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1824 · page 4

'MID SCOTIA'S Islets of-the West,[?] Wash'd by the rude Atlantic wave, A Veteran's modest trophies rest,— A Chieftain slumbers in the grave…

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