 In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the bounteous...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 149by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...suppliant prays ; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts...store, He views, and wonders, that they please no more ; Now pall the tasteless meats, and joyless wines, TJnnumber'd maladies his joints invade, Xay siege... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...Friend at College ; Euayi, p. 47. ed. 1834.] ' [" Time hover« o'er. Impatient to destroy, And shut« up all the passages of joy : In vain their gifts the...listless eyes the dotard views the store, He views, and wonder« that they please no more." ГаяНц of Human Wuba.l « [" What opposite discoveries we have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...to know That life protracted—is protracted wo. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And sliats up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The f*uit autumnal and the vernal flower: With listless eyes the dotard views the store; He views, and... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays : Armstrong. That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts...store, He views , and wonders that they please no more; Now pall the tasteless meats, and joyless wines, And Luxury with sighs her slave resigns. The still... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...suppliant prays ; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts...bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flower ; With listless eyes the dotard views the store, He views, and wonders that they please no more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted— is protracted vro. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts...In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fhut autumnal and the vernal flower . With listless eyes the dotard views the store ; He views, and... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...them, arc, with their adjuncts, generally separated from the rest of the sentence hy commas ; as, " Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, and shuts up all the passages of joy." " Principles of morality, imprinted cm the memory at an early age, are seldom erased from the mind."... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...suppliant prays ; Hides from himself his state, and shuus to know, That life protracted is protracted wo e. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts...bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flower : With listless eyes the dotard views the store, He views and wonders that they please no more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
....^, [Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know iT-hat life protracted is protracted woe. •— Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : aeo In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flower ; With... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...suppliant prays, Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : 260 In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flower ; With... | |
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