 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pagina’s
...bleat 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 youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, leams to fly ? For... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1847 - 300 pagina’s
...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 with an age of ease." GOLDSMITH. AN elderly man once expressed to me his sense of declining life, by saying, " My birth-days... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pagina’s
...Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly t VOT him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pagina’s
...blest 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 with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pagina’s
...must be mine. How happy 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,...combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born te work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pagina’s
...blest 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...strong temptations try And, since 'tis hard to combat, leams to fly. For him no wretches, bom to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dangerous deep;... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pagina’s
...blest 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 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. For... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 4151 The Deserted Village How happy for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. 43 4 1 52 The Deserted Village The watchdog's voice that bayed the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...blest 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 with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 pagina’s
...blest 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 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! For... | |
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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... 
