 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend — Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way —...brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd. Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce - Christian biography - 1851 - 512 pages
...enriched with the beams of celestial majesty." " But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with...resignation gently slopes the way; And all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past!" COTTON MATHER. THE subject of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate, ; But on he moves to mect his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gentlv slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, HU heaven commences ere the... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...state, i 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...brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...105 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...unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; no And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Sweet... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 pages
...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...brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. VI. Athens. Look once more ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west,... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...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...brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! 9. The foundations of a new poetical school were already laid. Percy's Collection of Reliques... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - Future life - 1853 - 410 pages
...bright vista aa he passes beyond our sight. Thus on he moves to meet his latter end, Angela around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with...While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospect bright'ning to the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be past. It may be remarked that... | |
 | Evan Morgan (of Cardiff.) - 1853 - 162 pages
...gwrthddrych yn y misoedd olaf o'i fywyd : — " But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; ', Sinks to the grave...unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; f ' And all hie prospects brightening to the last, His Heaven commences ere tbe world be past." Pregethodd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 pages
...the conflict: the only method to come off victorious is by running away." — The Bee, p. 56. I . -. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ;... | |
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Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. 
