 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks bis gold, and counts it till be die:. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime...Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers ; The general favourite, as the general friend : Such age there is, and who could wish its end ! Yet ev'n... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime...Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers ; The general favourite, as the general friend : Such age there is, and who could wish its end. Yet e'en... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...counts it till he die*. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scoru or crime ; An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,...Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers ; The general favourite, as the general friend : Such age there is, and who could wish its cud ! Yet ev'n... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; "An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence...as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ° ? Yetev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime, Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears,... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Blest with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that...Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers; The general favourite, as the general friend : Such age there is, and who could wish its end ? Yet ev'n... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence...Benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience cheer* • The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral -friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1819 - 524 pages
...rigid disciplinarian, or by the most furious zealot CHAPTER XX. " But grant the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime,...Whose night congratulating conscience cheers, The general fav'rite, as the general friend : Such age there is, and who could wish its end ? Yet, ev'n... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 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; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...treach'rous skill. And mould his passions till they make his will. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay. And glides in modest innocence away ; ' .Whose peaceful day benevolence endears,... | |
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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. 
