 The very Honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy, And they (methinks) deserve my pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings 10 Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 727edited by - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...I could not abstain from renewing mv old schoolboy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect: Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...I could not abstain from renewing my old schoolboy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect : Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1859 - 176 pages
...landed at Whitehall stairs." • LONDON, FEOM НЮШАТЕ. " Well, then, I now do plainly see .Yon busy world and I shall ne'er agree — The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all moats the sooner cloy ; And they, methluks, deserve my pity, Who dwell in yon great hive — the city."... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1860 - 164 pages
...perhaps little more can be said for some of the residents in the old Cistcrsian Abbey of Valle Crucis. " Well, then, I now do plainly see, This busy world...joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they, methiuks, deserve my pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, the buzz, and murmuring»,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...I could not abstain from renewing mv old schoolboy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect: Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...sorrows to thy shade, O, soothe her breast, ye rocks around, with softest sympathy of sound. E. DARWIN WELL, then, I now do plainly see this busy world and...pity who for it can endure the stings, the crowd, and buz, and murmurings of this great hive, the City. Ah ! yet, ere I descend to the grave, may I a small... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...I could not abstain from renewing my old schoolboy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect : Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 pages
...Obscured life sets down a type of bliss ; A mind content both crown avid Vmg,dom \%,. ' LXXXII. THE WISH. WELL then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and...pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1868 - 240 pages
...abstain from renewing my old schoolboy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect : Well then ; 3 I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy Restoration, but... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...could not abstain from renewing my old schoolboy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect : — " Well then, I now do plainly see, This busy world and I bhall ne'er agree," &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's... | |
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