 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pages
...to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'roua deep; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; • No furly porter flands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way : And all his profpefts bright'ning to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But...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... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 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...decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all bis prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences, ere the world be past. This envied portion... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate: But...end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend— Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And all his prospects... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; • .• . And, all his prospects bright'ning... | |
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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... 
