 | Collection - 1755 - 378 σελίδες
...modeft Innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who could wifh its end ? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To prefs the weary minutes flagging... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 σελίδες
...innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience chears ; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend ; Such age there is, and who could wifh its end ? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To prefs the weary minutes flagging... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 σελίδες
...counts it 'till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime; An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away ; Whole peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whole night congratulating Confcience... | |
 | 1765 - 414 σελίδες
...counts it 'till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime; An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1770 - 402 σελίδες
...counts it 'till he dies. But grantj the virtues of a temp'rate prime Kiefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime ; An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away ; ._ Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 σελίδες
...Eyes, Unlocks his Gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the Virtues of a temp'rate Prime, Blefs with an Age exempt from Scorn or Crime ; An Age that melts in unperceiv'd Decay, And glides in modeft Innocence away ; Whofe peaceful Day Benevolence endears, Whofe Night congratulating Confcience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 σελίδες
...Eyes, Unlocks his Gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the Virtues of a temp' rate Prime, Blefs with an Age exempt from Scorn or Crime ; An Age that melts in unpercciv'd Decay, And glides in modeft Innocence away ; Whofe peaceful Day Benevolence endears, Whofe... | |
 | 1781 - 512 σελίδες
...it — till he diet. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime ; An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience... | |
 | 1782 - 494 σελίδες
...counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prima Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime : An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating Confcience... | |
 | Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1784 - 444 σελίδες
...modell innocence away ; Wh o fe peaceful day benevolence endears, Whofe night congratulating confcience cheers ; The gen'ral fav'rite, as the gen'ral friend ; Such age there is ; and who could wiih its end ? Yete'vn on this her load misfortune flings, To prefs the weary minutes' flagging... | |
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