 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...forever." We may keep the Devil without the swine, but not the swine without the devil. Let him who er & Brothers Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished. Avarice or cruelty was discernible in... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 324 pages
...father bid the boy bring your trunk, and saw him go for iu~Jl dare say it will be safe. Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed.7'-JB/«zV. None but the virtuous dare hope in bad circumstances. Thy Hector, wrapp'd in everlasting... | |
 | 1853 - 390 pages
...unsatisfactory prosperity, retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the last years with the companions of his childhood, and recover youth in the fields where he once was young. — JOHNSOS. DEATH viewed as SLEEP. A DKATH-BED'S the detector of the heart. Here tir'd dissimulation... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...unsatisfactory prosperity, retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the last years with the companions of his childhood, and recover youth in the fields where he once was young. — Johnson. DCCXXVI. Go, little book ; thy self present As child whose parent is unkent, To him that... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1860 - 354 pages
...father bid the boy bring your trunk, and saw him go for it. I dare say it will be safe. Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give •while his gift can be enjoyed. — Blair. None but the virtuous dare hope in bad circumstances. Thy Hector, wrapp'd in everlasting... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pages
...unsatisfactory prosperity, retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the last years with the companions of his childhood, and recover youth in the fields where he once was young." Dr. Armstrong, the friend of Thomson, has left this solemn apostrophe on the Wrecks and Mutations of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the last years of his life with the company of his childhood and recover youth in the fields where he once was young. A few years make such sad havoc in human generations, that we soon see ourselves deprived of those... | |
 | Edward D. Farrell - 1877 - 228 pages
...difficulty, to abandon ourselves to dejection carries no mark of a great or worthy mind. Let him who desires to see others happy make haste to give while his gift can he enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pages
...unsatisfactory prosperity retires to the town of his nativity and expects to play away the last years with the companions of his childhood, and recover youth in the fields where he once was young.' — Johnson, The Idler, No. 43. 1. 22. secrecy of solitude. Boswell thus describes London : ' There,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...unsatisfactory prosperity retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the last years with the companions of his childhood, and recover youth in the fields where he once was young. t uier, NO. 43. • * IT is well known that time once past never returns ; and that the moment which... | |
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The traveller visits in age those countries through which he rambled in his youth, and hopes for merriment at the old place. The man of business, wearied with unsatisfactory prosperity, retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the... 
