 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 sider
...I still had hopes, my long vexations pass'd, Here to return — and die at home at last. O bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How bless'd is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a... | |
 | 1822 - 550 sider
...friend to life's decline, Still cheer this household with thy peace divine; For blest are they who crown in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease; Who quit a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learn to fly. On may ye... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 sider
...flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations pass'd, Here to return—and die at home at last. O bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How bless'd is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease; Who quits a... | |
 | 1823 - 494 sider
...yourself, and with him exclaim, "0 blest retirement! friend to life's decline, Retreats from vice * How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease." Beware of Pope. He enchants you with his flowing numbers, while he poisons you with his pernicious... | |
 | Alicia Lefanu - 1823 - 536 sider
...a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes — my long vexations past — Here to return, and die at home at last. GOLDSMITH. TIME passed on, with little to vary its course for Geraldine, except the occasional letters... | |
 | 1823 - 816 sider
...a hare, when hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last ! An apology might seem necessary for quoting lines so generally known, and, I hope, felt ; butas the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...an hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had William C. Hall quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him... | |
 | Steam boat companion - 1824 - 228 sider
...whole is amply supplied with water; but it has necessarily been obtained at the depth of 350 feet. " O blest retirement! friend to life's decline, Retreats...these A youth of labour with an age of ease ? Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly." And this... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1824 - 430 sider
...fall in love with retirement, after perusing the following passage in Goldsmith's " Deserted Village." O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats...mine, ' How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like the A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world when strong temptations try, And since... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sider
...bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from cares, that never must be mine, How bless'd is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And. since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him... | |
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Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at... 
