 | Pauline Beard, Robert Liftig, James S. Malek - Education - 2007 - 370 pages
...views his coffers with suspicious eyes, 20 Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age...unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; 25 Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers; The general... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 337 pages
...a reasonable wish in the poem's context—the wish for a life without narrative, the progression of an age "that melts with unperceived decay, / And glides in modest innocence away" (293-94), a potentially endless life as unconscious subject and invisible object—is consumed by the... | |
 | 1914 - 622 pages
...that has given assurance of deathless influence to the work and personality of Matthew Henry Buckham. "An age that melts with unperceived decay. And glides in modest Innocence away; Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers; The general favorite as the general friend; Such age 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... 
