 | Matthew Hale - Christian ethics - 1699 - 638 pages
...Road of Bufinefs, or the fear Of falling lower,where I fweetly may My felf, and dear Retirement ftill enjoy : Let not my Life, or Name, be known unto The Grandees of the Times, toft to and fro By Cenliires, or Applaule j but let my Age Slide gently by, not overthwart the... | |
 | Matthew Hale - 1763 - 440 pages
...road of bufmefs, or the fear Of tailing lower, where I iweeily may Myfelf, and dear retirement Itill enjoy : Let not my life, or name, be known unto The grandees of the times, toll too and fro By cenlures, or applaufe ; but let my age Slide gently by, not overthwart the... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Theology - 1805 - 562 pages
...his mounting wishes : As for me. Let sweet repose and rest my portion be. Give me some mean ol-scure recess ; a sphere Out of the road of business, or...not my life or name be known unto The grandees of time, tost to and fro Ey censures or applause ; but let my age Slide gently ly not overthicart the... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Christianity - 1805 - 640 pages
...great As are his mounting wishes : As for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be. Give me some mean obscure recess ; a sphere Out of the road of business, or the fear Of falling lower; where 1 sweetly may Myself and dear retirement still enjoy : Let not my life or name be known unto The grandees... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Christianity - 1805 - 632 pages
...road of bufinefs, or the fear Of falling lower, where I fweetly may Myfelf, and dear retirement Hill enjoy : Let not my life, or name, be known unto The Grandees of the times, loft to and fro By cenfures or applaufe ; but let my age Slide gently by, not overthwart the... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, John Fell - Lawyers - 1806 - 346 pages
...road of bufinefs, or the fear Of falling lower : where I fweetly may Myfelf and dear retirement ftill enjoy. Let not my life or name be known unto .The Grandees of the time, toft to and fro By cenfures or applaufe ; but let my age Slide gently by ; not overthwart the ftage... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1814 - 600 pages
...As are his mounting wishes ! As for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be ! Give me some mem obscure recess ; a sphere Out of the road of business,...or applause ! But let my age Slide gently by, not overthwait the stage Of public actions, unheard, unseen. And unconccrn'd, as if I ne'er had been !... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1814 - 572 pages
...great As are his mounting wishes ! As for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be ! Give me some mean obscure recess ; a sphere Out of the road of...Grandees of the Time, tost to and fro By censures or apptause ! But let my age Slide gently by, not overthwart the stage Of public actions, unheard, unseen,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1814 - 586 pages
...great As arc his mounting wishes ! As for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be ! Give me some mean obscure recess ; a sphere Out of the road of...still enjoy. Let not my life or name be known unto The Grander of the Time, tost to and fro By censures or applause ! But let my age Slide gently by, not... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...great As are his mounting wishes. As for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be. Give me some mean obscure recess: a sphere Out of the road of business,...enjoy. Let not my life, or name, be known unto The (? high) grandees of time; tost to and fro By censures, or applause: but let my age Slide gently by,... | |
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Let him that will, ascend the tottering seat Of courtly grandeur, and become as great As are his mounting wishes : as for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be ; Give me some mean, obscure recess, a sphere Out of the road of business, or the fear... 
