 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour...tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...at last. O, blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must be mine ! How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these,...try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! — Goldsmith, CLING NOT TO EARTH. Cling not to earth — there's nothing there, However loved —... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1827 - 134 pages
...to life's decline, Still cheer this household with thy peace divine : For blest are they who crown, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease; Who quit a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learn to fly. On may ye... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must be mine ! How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these,...try, And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! Goldsmith. DIRGE. The summer winds sing lullaby O'er Mary's little grave ; And the summer flowers... | |
 | John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury - Anglican Communion - 1828 - 818 pages
...from the bustle and temptation of the world, to adore their God in solitude and in silence: " Who quit a world where strong temptations try, " And since 'tis hard to combat, learn to fly." Without taking into consideration the preference which the Almighty has generally been... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...home at last. Oblc-t retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A...quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...at last. О blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, ion he generally wears, by draining his superfluous...moisture; while the woman, deprived of this amuse wprld where strong temptations try. And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly Т For him no wretches,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...blest retirement; friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine I How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with ;m age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...decline! Retreat from care, that never must be mine ! „_ » ,;-.,:'--.--• '. - --- •;.• --^=^J^. How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor, with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since " t is hard... | |
 | Adam Waldie - Literature - 1833 - 640 pages
...at last. O, blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from core that never must be mine ! How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these,...quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'I is hard to combat, learns to fly. Goldsmith. of a CALCUTTA TO EUROPE BY WAY OF EGYPT, IN Tin! TEAKS... | |
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How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly... 
