 | Julian Hawthorne - 1906 - 432 pages
...virtuous man contend With life's unnumbered woes ; And he was poor, — without a friend, — Pressed by a thousand foes. I saw the Passions' pliant slave...summer's day. And I was caught in Folly's snare, And joined her giddy train, — But found her soon the nurse of Care, And Punishment, and Pain. There surely... | |
 | 1906 - 1214 pages
...virtuous man contend With life's unnumbered woes: And he was poor — without a friend — Pressed by a thousand foes. I saw the Passions' pliant slave...His course was Pleasure's placid wave— His life a summer day. And I was caught in folly's snare, And joined her giddy train — But found her soon the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1881 - 888 pages
...contend With life's unnumbered woes ; And he was poor, without a friend, Pressed by a thousand foes. 1 saw the Passions' pliant slave In gallant trim, and...His course was Pleasure's placid wave, His life a summer day. And I was caught in Folly's snare And joined her giddy train ; But found her soon the nurse... | |
 | 1846 - 598 pages
...the virtuous man content With life's nnnumber'd woes; And he was poor,— without a friend, Presa'd by a thousand foes. I saw the passions' pliant slave In gallant trim and gay ; Hi* course was pleasure's phvcid wave, Ilia life a summer's day. And I was caught in folly's snare,... | |
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I saw the passions' pliant slave In gallant trim and gay, His course was pleasure's placid wave, His life a summer's day. 
