 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pagine
...weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from his gate : But on he moves to...Sinks to the grave, with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pagine
...tempt the 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...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with uaperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pagine
...weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from his gate : But on he moves to...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave, with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pagine
...tempt the 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...— Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way — And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pagine
...tempt the 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...— Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way — And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pagine
...tempt the 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...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pagine
...tempt the 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...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with urrperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce - 1851 - 512 pagine
...it ascend the mount, transfigured, glorified, and enriched with the beams of celestial majesty." " But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And all his prospects bright'ning to the... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pagine
...Take this gem of a description, portraying him who crowns ' A youth of labour with an age of ease, And on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around,...befriending virtue's friend, Sinks to the grave, with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pagine
...surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate, ; But on he moves to mect his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gentlv slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to... | |
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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; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine... 
