 Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...  Mosaics - Σελίδα 126των Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 408 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 σελίδες
...dang'rous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brigbt'ning to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 σελίδες
...dangerous deep; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay. While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to... | |
 | sir Thomas Bernard (bart.) - 1813 - 214 σελίδες
...age and infirmity, to the poorest and humblest Christian, — who Sinks to the grave by unpercelv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaTen commences 'ere this world be past. IN adopting the form of a dialogue passing between eminent... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 σελίδες
...autumn, show each year the consolations that compose and satisfy a quiet, faithful, sweet old age. " For on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." We have mentioned that in autumn the ivy blossoms. The bright yellowish-green flowers, emblems of truth... | |
 | 1814 - 310 σελίδες
...dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; •But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 σελίδες
...benevolent heart that in the " Deserted Village " foreshadowed these gtnuine "latter days :" " But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived demy, While resignation gently slopes the way ; 1 Isaiah xlL 19. And all his prospects brightening... | |
 | 1816
...a world where strong temptation* <ry, - , And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly • Onward he moves, to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all bis prospects bright'ning to... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 σελίδες
...porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on be moves to meet bis latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all his prospects brightening to the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 σελίδες
...dang'rous deep ; • No furly porter flands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way : And all his profpefts bright'ning to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 σελίδες
...dang'roua deep; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the... | |
| |
