 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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...the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 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...resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past ! JOHNSON. VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...meet his latter end, Angels aromid befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And,...to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pastSweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; •... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 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 - 1822 - 194 pages
...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...to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd. Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 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...to the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be pass'd. Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...dangerous duep ; No surly porter stands in haughty 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 brightening to... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...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 unperceiv'd decay, While resigna ion gently slopes the way; And, all his... | |
 | 1824 - 596 pages
...porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring-famine from the gate, But on he moves to meet bis latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend,...brightening to the last. His heaven commences ere the world he past. Deserted Village. We may add to these specimens of first rate poetry, the following beautiful... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1824 - 430 pages
...guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate j But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angel's around, befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the...last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Hume, however, agrees in the main with this theory of Du Bos, and thinks, with him, that the pleasure... | |
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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... 
