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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. "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 119
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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Sacred Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Works of the Most Admired ...

Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an r.ge 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 can wish its end? Yet e'en on this her load misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging...
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Sacred poetry: consisting of selections from the works of the most admired ...

Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day henevolence endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers...as the gen'ral friend ; Such age there is, and who can wish its end? Yet e'en on this her load misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...SAMUEL JOHNSON. [From Vanity <tf Human ir ;,;,,, ENVIABLE AOE. 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,...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 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 ? Yet e'vn on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 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,...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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,...
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Uncle Horace, by the author of 'Sketches of Irish character'.

Anna Maria Hall - 1837 - 976 pages
...the twilight of that sweet room ! 1ST CHAPTER XI. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Blew with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glide* in modest innocence awav ; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears,...
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Juvenal

Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pages
...blockade; But unextinguish'd av'rice still remains, 285 But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless'd 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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Uncle Horace: A Novel, Volume 1

Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1838 - 222 pages
...temp'rate prime Bless with an ;<;r<: exempt from scorn or crimes An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose...endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers. JoJinson. IT is true that Mary Lorton had more than once whispered to herself—" I wonder what brought...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 378 pages
...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...as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging...
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