 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...at last. O 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... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...at 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 labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pages
...: :• But on he moves, to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend — Bends to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way — no And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd.... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
