 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...Improve his heady rage with treacherous skill, And mould his passions till they make his will. But grant the virtues of a temperate prime, Bless with an age...benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheer« ; The gencTal favourite as the general friend ; Such age there is, and who shall wish its end... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 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 in unperceiv'd decay And glides in modest innocence away, Whose peaceful day benevolence endears, Whose... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 460 pages
...Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. And mould his passions till they make his will. But grant, 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 ? Yet ev'n on this... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 440 pages
...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...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 ev'n on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. 290 But grant, 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 1 Yet e'en on this... | |
 | Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 444 pages
...WILL BE YOUR DESTINY ? 76 77 78 79 80 81 Yours are the virtues of a temperate prime, Be bless'd with age, exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts...unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Your peaceful days benevolence will endear, Your nights congratulating conscience cheer. 217 Dr Samuel... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 514 pages
...stage, Till pitying nature signs the kst release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. But grant, 2 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 ? But few there are... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...this fine satire we select the following passage as a fair sample of the whole poem:— Grant that 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 1 Yet even on this her... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...encumbered oar 1 scarce leaves the dreaded coast Through purple billows and a floating host. But grant, 2 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 ? Yet even on this... | |
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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... 
