| James Waddel Alexander - 1847 - 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 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 - 290 pages
...first she flew I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of case ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis , d to... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Wallace - 1849 - 142 pages
...families 105 CHAPTER I. THE KESIDENCE OF THE FAMILY. " O blest Retirement, friend to life's decline; How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ! " GOLDSMITH. MANY years have winged their noiseless but rapid flight, since we were acquainted with... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...retirement 1 friend to life's decline ! Retreat from care — that never must be mine 1 How bless'd 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... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...at last. O 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 labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...last. O bless'd 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.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pages
...last. ; . O blest retirement, friend to life's decline. Retreat from cares, 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...saw ; O bless'd 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.... | |
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