 | 1841 - 846 pages
...Village: — " How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour, with an age of ease ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way." In Mr. Maude's Wensleydale, under Leyburn, are the following lines : — "Why need we want the shining... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet hia 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 the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...dangerous deep ; Nor 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 brightening to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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 ; Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his... | |
 | 1883 - 798 pages
...words, perhaps, best describe his situation : — " Bnt on he moves to meet bis latter end, Angela around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the...last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." The closing scene is soon told. In the year 1873 he was seized with an attack of bronchitis, which brought... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...weep', Explore the mine', or tempt the dangerous deep ; To spurn imploring famine from the gatd • But on he moves to meet his latter end', Angels around...friend*; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay', 70 While resignation gently slopes the way' ; And', all his prospects brightening to the last', His... | |
 | Fredericus Theodorus Visser - 2002 - 688 pages
...Ye intend to ... take your leave of Patrick or he gang (OED). | 1770 Goldsmith, Deserted Vill. 112, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. | 1785 Burns, Hey, The Dusty Miller 3, He will win a shilling Or he spend a groat. ) 1785 Idem, The... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pages
...the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state To spurn imploring famine from his gate, But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past I'1 But this passage, though it is fine, is fanciful. Does he who retires into the country to crown... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state To spum 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; 110 And, all his... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...from the gate; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels round befriending Virtue's friend; Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; All, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be past! Sweet was... | |
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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... 
