Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless... Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Σελίδα 143των Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
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...news from England could not but have now and then been of a less cheering tendency : — ' Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to...blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.' He heard, while at Rome, of the death of his best friend, Sir G. Beaumont. This blow the invalid felt... | |
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...age,And Truth diffus« her radiance from the stage. On the Death of Dr Robert LereU— 1782. Condemned am and Robert Chambers blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See... | |
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...age, And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. On the Death of Dr Robert LeveU—l7»2. Condemned Masts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See... | |
| Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 454 σελίδες
...or that Woodbridge could go on without him, never once occurred to me. Well might old Johnson say, " Condemn'd to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from...blast, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away." I actually begin to draw comfort from the thought that we too must, ere long, drop away too. I seem... | |
| Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 562 σελίδες
...or that Woodbridge could go on without him, never once occurred to me. Well might old Johnson say, " Condemn'd to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from...blast, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away." I actually begin to draw comfort from the thought that we too must, ere long, drop away too. I seem... | |
| Bernard Barton - 1849 - 454 σελίδες
...without him, never once occurred to me. Well might old Johnson say, " Condemn'd to hope's delusire mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away." I actually begin to draw comfort from the thought that we too must, ere long, drop away too. I seem... | |
| Bernard Barton - 1850 - 432 σελίδες
...or that Woodbridge could go on without him, never once occurred to me. Well might old Johnson say, " Condemn'd to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from...blast, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away." I actually begin to draw comfort from the thought that we too must, ere long, drop away too. I seem... | |
| Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 σελίδες
...which may be appropriately quoted here:— " Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from da; to day. By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to tlie grave deseend; Officious, innocent, sincere,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 556 σελίδες
...lines, which when once read are never forgotten : — Well tried through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Boswell informs us that Dr. Johnson himself lived at one time in Fetter Lane. The celebrated Praise... | |
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...we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend / Officious, innocent, linccre, Of every friendless name the friend. " Yet itill he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise... | |
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