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" tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep... "
Specimens of the British poets - Page 239
by British poets - 1809
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The Deserted Village: A Poem

Oliver Goldsmith - 1770 - 44 pages
...where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fty; THE DESERTED VILLAGE. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from his gate, But on he moves to meet...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 42

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1770 - 604 pages
...cafe ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No furly porter Hands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from his gate, But on he moves to meet...
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Retaliation: a poem. To which is added, some account of the life ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...cafe ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Now First ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 pages
...tempt the dangerous deep j No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels...; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way ; And all his profpedts brightning to the laft, His heaven commences....
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

1785 - 320 pages
...weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; No furly porter flands in guilty flate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to...friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently dopes the way ; And all his profpefts bright'ning to the laft, His Heav'n commences...
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse

1787 - 430 pages
...Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands., in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves to...latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Bends to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way, And all his profpefts,...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...; Who Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And fince 'tis hard to combat learns to fly. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No furly porter Hands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate; But on he moves to meet...
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Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this ...

1792 - 112 pages
..., Explore the mine, or tempt the clangorous deep; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to...friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently ffopes the way; And, all his profpects bright'ning to the laft, His heav'n commences...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith: Containing All His Essays and Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 308 pages
...tempt the dang'rous deepf No fui-ly porter ftands, in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate : But on he moves, to meet his latter end, Angels...Sinks to the grave, with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way; And all his profpefts bright'ning at the laft, His heaven commences...
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The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1794 - 124 pages
...weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate; But on he moves to...; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently Hopes the way; And all his profpe&s bright'ning to the laft, His heaven commences...
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