Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 217.
“An untimely grave.”
On the Duke of Buckingham, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "An untimely grave", Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, Psalm vii.
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