 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 292 pages
...Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 436 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, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 450 pages
...eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime p jt 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1824 - 178 pages
...scarce awe the gi nil scarce a legacy can bribe to hear; he watchful guests still hint the last o Ad age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides...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 her... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 pages
...was that which the same writer has described, when warmed with poetic fire, " An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence...endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers." Though anticipating, perhaps, some of the evils of age before they came upon him, and therefore desirous... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 338 pages
...was that which the same writer has described, when warmed with poetic fire, " An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence...endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers." Though anticipating, perhaps, some of the evils of age before they came upon him, and therefore desirous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1824 - 366 pages
...suspicious eyes, Unlocks bis 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,... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...I'ulocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. '!iut grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Hlc-s 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 516 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' 1 ! Yet e'en... | |
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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... 
