 | Samuel Taylor Johnson - Literary Collections - 1825 - 508 pages
...temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; c An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose...Whose night congratulating conscience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend; Such age there is, and who shall wish its end''? Yet e'en on... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 314 pages
...temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime i; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose...Whose night congratulating conscience cheers ; The gen'ral fav'rjte as the gen'ral friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? Yet e'en on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; °An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears, Whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 574 pages
...Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. • Ver. 188—288. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears, Whose... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.* . . . But graut the virtues of a temperate prime, Bless with an age...night congratulating conscience cheers; The general favourite as the general friend ; Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? * To shew how admirably... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...a temperate prime Bless with an r.ge exempt from scorn or crime: An age that melts with unpcrceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears, Whose nigfit congratulating conscience cheers; The grn'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend ; Such age there... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1837 - 980 pages
...increase it. : Mary knew that her uncle would never have CHAPTER XI. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime...endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers. JOHNSOX. IT is true that Mary Lorton had more than once whispered to herself—" I wonder what brought... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 360 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears, Wliose... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Fiction, Irish - 1838 - 222 pages
...a temp'rate prime Bless with an.age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceivcd decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose...endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers. Johnson. race to London at this particular time!" his farewell to her in his garden was yet green in... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...last, ieVea.se, •And bids afflicted worth retire to -peace But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;...Whose night congratulating conscience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? But few there... | |
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The virtues of a temperate prime, ' Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; ' An age that melts with unperceived decay, ' And glides in modest innocence away ; ' Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears, ' Whose night congratulating conscience cheers... 
