| English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, 16 And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops...Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade; 20 Yet hope not life from... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumphs of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...tempting Novelty thy cell refrain. And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain : 376 TO iD 1760.] 377 Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; 150 Should no Disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; ' Yet... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumphs of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms... | |
| 1885 - 932 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade... | |
| James Boswell - 1885 - 436 pages
...of misery being " the doom of man," in this life, as displayed in his " Vanity of Human Wishes." [" Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee."] Yet I observed that things were done upon the supposition of happiness ; grand... | |
| Dalhousie University - 1887 - 206 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on...claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; Should no Disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on...claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade... | |
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