 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - Memorial service - 1859 - 78 pages
...funeral day by one who fondly loved the good man, the picture drawn by Dr. Johnson ! — " But grant the virtues of a temperate prime, Bless with an age...night congratulating conscience cheers, The general favorite as the general friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end Ě " Such age, God be... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...nature signs the last release, Aud bids afflicted worth retire to peace. But grant the virtuous of'a temperate prime, Bless with an age exempt from scorn...modest innocence away ; Whose peaceful day benevolence codeare, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers : The general favourite as the general friend;... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Scene 4. (The same.) He is older than Saturn. LE SAOE—Gil Bias, Vol. I. Book III. Chap. 11. An nge that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest...Night congratulating conscience cheers; The general favourite as the general friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? DR. JOHNSON. —... | |
 | Charles Ames Washburn - 1865 - 638 pages
...by a moiety of a stolen fortune." CHAPTER VII. " But grant the virtues of a temperate prime, Blest with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides with modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating conscience... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 266 pages
...encumbered oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast Through purple billows and a floating host. 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 ? New sorrow rises as... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - Bible - 1869 - 86 pages
...funeral day by one who fondly loved the good man, the picture drawn by Dr. Johnson! — " But grant the virtues of a temperate prime, Bless with an age...night congratulating conscience cheers, The general favorite as the general friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? " Such age, God be... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...sketch of the decline of life, animated by purity and virtue : " 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... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 550 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. 290 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, 295... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...encumbered oar scarce leaves the dreaded coa Through purple billows and a floating host. 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 even on this... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1873 - 880 pages
...dies. But grant, the virtues of atempérate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An ago that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest...endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers ; I The general favorite as the general frieu( Such age there is, and who shall wish its < Yet even... | |
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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... 
