 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...  Annual Register - Pàgina 197editat per - 1771Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pàgines
...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 around befriending virtue's friend — Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way — And, all... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pàgines
...dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from his 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 ; And, all his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pàgines
...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 around befriending virtue's friend — Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way — And, all... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce - 1851 - 512 pàgines
...ascend the mount, transfigured, glorified, and 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 unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And all his prospects... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pàgines
...Take this gem of a description, portraying him who crowns ' A youth of labour with an age of ease, And 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 ; And all his prospects... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pàgines
...dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands, in guilty 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 unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pàgines
...dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands, in guilty 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 urrperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, 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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pàgines
...dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty 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 unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 pàgines
...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 around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his... | |
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