 | Samuel Johnson - 1785 - 222 pages
...counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime ; An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away ; VVhofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...modeft innocence away; Whole peaceful day Benevolence endears, • Whofe night congratulating Confcience cheers ; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who fhall wifh its end ? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To prefs the weary minutes flagging... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...innocence away; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience cheers ; The The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who fhall wilh its end ? . Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To prefs the weary minutes flagging... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime...Benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience chears ; Epist. II. AtJD PRECEfTtVl; 8J The gen'ral fav'rite, as the gen'ra) friend; Such age there... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 pages
...dies. But grant, the virtue* of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime : -tef An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, / And glides...Benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience chcars ; ' The gen'ral fav'rite, as the gen'ral friend; - — Such age there is ; and who could wish... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 370 pages
...modeft innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience cheers ; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who mall wifh its end ? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To prefs the weary minutes flagging... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...modefl innocence away ; Vvhofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, \Vhofe night congratulating Conlcience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who fhall wifh its end ? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To prefs the weary minutes' flagging... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1797 - 626 pages
...modeft innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating confcience cheers, The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend, Such age there is, and who would wifh its end ? Yet ev'n on this her load misfortune ffings, To prefs the weary minutes' flagging wings... | |
 | Mr. Addison - 1797 - 712 pages
...counts it till he dies. But grant the virtues of a temp'rate prime, Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime, An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away; Whofe peaceful day benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating confcience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 422 pages
...innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience cheers ; The The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who fhall wifh its end ? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To prefe the weary minutes' flagging... | |
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His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. 
