 Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless...  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Page 143by Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET. fiONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, ^ As on we toil from day to day, By sndden blasts or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...a sky, And" I but flatter less. OV WE DEJTH OF MR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACT1SER IN PHYSIC. CONDEMN'!) to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year, See... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...And wide their ensigns fluttering in the gale. ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT LEVETT. — JOHNSON. CONDEMNED to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...fraudulent and slow, Shall spring to seize thee like an ambush'd foe. ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET. CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden biasts or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...fraudulent and slow, Shall spring to seize thee like an ambush'd foe. OK THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET. CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See... | |
 | Invisible hand - 1815 - 278 pages
...depraved taste, a diseased and vitiated palate. . • . . I had turned over a fresh page, and read, — " Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day 5 , By sudden blast, or slow decline,' Our social comforts drop away." . D "How true is that !" ;I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...a sky, And I but flatter less. ON THE DEATH OF MR. ROBERT LEVETT, A Practiser in Physick. CONDEMNED to hope's delusive mine, AS on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away, , Well tried through many a varying year, See... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...affectionate regard for Levett, that he honoured JiL memory with the following pathetic verses : Condemn'dto Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By s midi n blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...Practiser in Physic. CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year, 1 See Levet to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of ev'ry friendless name the friend.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 pages
...affectionate regard for Le-- vett,* that he honoured his memory with the following pathetick verses : " CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, " As on we toil...innocent, sincere, " Of every friendless name the friend. * See an account of him in " The Gentleman's Magazine," Feb. 1785. " Yet still he fills affection's... | |
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