 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 Seiten
...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;...night congratulating conscience cheers, The gen'ral I'av'rite as the gen'ral friend;— Sucl) age there is, and who would wish its end 1— Yet ev'n on... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...a temperate prune Bless with an ago exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with uuperceived 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 shall wish its end 1 Yet even on... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...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...benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheer« ; The gencTal favourite as the general friend ; Such age there is, and who shall wish its end... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...the following passage as a feir sample of the whole poem:— Grant that the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperccived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whoso peaceful day benevolence endears,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 Seiten
...dies. But grant the virtues of a tcmp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; 1 t V An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay. And glides...benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheen, The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend; — Such age there is, and who would wish its end... | |
 | 1855 - 424 Seiten
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant the virtuous 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 Seiten
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. 290 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 Seiten
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. 290 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,... | |
 | 1856 - 754 Seiten
...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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His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. 
