 | 1883 - 798 pages
...; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." The closing scene is soon told. In the year 1873 he was seized with an attack of bronchitis, which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...Sinks ..: the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, l.'p yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...Sinks to the grave with un perceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way j And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Swee#was the sound, when oil, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay', 70 While resignation gently slopes the way' ; And', all his prospects brightening to the last', His heaven commences ere the world be past* ! LESSON LXXXVII. CELADON AND AMELIA. Iambic. Epic. YOUNG CELADON' And his AMELIA were a matchless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...Bends to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way — no And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be pass'd. Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There... | |
 | Timothy Farrar - 1847 - 106 pages
...; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past" The steps of his declining life are successive approaches toward heaven. A repose pervades his soul,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,' Up yondej hill the village murmur rose ; There... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. 15 Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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 ere the world be past 83. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ? O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...; 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 ere the world be past.* Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,... | |
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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 brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be... 
