| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 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,... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1821 - 488 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 peaceful day benevolence endears. Whose night cougratulating conscience cheers, The general fav'rite, as the general friend : Such age there is,... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 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,... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 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 unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 320 pages
...of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose...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... | |
| 1822 - 292 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 in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whose... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 442 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...night congratulating Conscience cheers ; The gen'ral fav rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ° ? Yet ev'n on this... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 366 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks bis 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...endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers ;. p 2 The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral frienii ; Such age there is, and who shall wish its end... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 830 pages
...now an age, of which he might say in the words of the poet — " An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose...as the gen'ral friend; Such age there is, and who shall wish its end?" No attack had been made upon the learned judge. His learned friend had merely... | |
| Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 pages
...which the same writer has described, when warmed with poetic fire, " An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose...endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers." Though anticipating, perhaps, some of the evils of age before they came upon him, and therefore desirous... | |
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