 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...dang'rous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...dang'rous deep ; Ko surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn Imploring famine from the gate ; Bat on he moves to meet his latter end, , Angels around...befriending virtue's friend *, Sinks to the grave with oupereeiv'd decay, AVhile resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to... | |
 | William Beloe - 1817 - 400 pages
...421. Of the venerable personage here depicted, it may be truly said, that he l Sinks to the grave by unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all his prospects brightning to the last, His heaven commences ere this world be past. CHAP. CHAP. LXVI. P. 427. " As... | |
 | Sir Thomas Bernard - 1818 - 292 pages
...age and infirmity, to the poorest and humblest Christian, — who Sinks to the grave by unperceiv'd decay While resignation gently slopes the way ; And...brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere this world be past. IN adopting the form of a dialogue passing between eminent men of the same period,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend— Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And all his prospects... | |
 | 1818 - 724 pages
...meet hislatterentl, Angels themselves befriending Virtue's friend ; Sinks to the earth with ' gradual' decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way And all his prospects brightening at the ... . '«*. [past." His neav n commences ere this world be A cheerful piety, indeed, was the... | |
 | 1819 - 550 pages
...age and infirmity, to the poorest and humblest Christian, who — " Sinks to the grave by unperceiv'd decay, " While resignation gently slopes the way;...brightening to the last, " His Heaven commences ere this world be past." " In adopting the form of a dialogue passing between eminent men of the same period,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...dang'rous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; • .• . And, all his prospects bright'ning... | |
 | Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820 - 466 pages
...life's flame from wasting by repose. Thus, to proceed in the language of the Poet, he prepares himself to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending...last, His heaven commences, ere the world be past. This envied portion of human felicity was not granted to Mr. Clarke. The evening of his day was overcast... | |
 | 1816 - 598 pages
...quits a world where strong temptations "У. And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly '• Onward he moves, to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks ш the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects... | |
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Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep... 
