 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...blest retirement ! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ; How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to cambat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care that never must be mine ! How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from cares, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease; IVho quits a world when0 strong temptations ttfl And, since, 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly-! For... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Retreat from care, that never must be mine ! „_ » ,;-.,:'--.--• '. - --- •;.• --^=^J^. How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor, with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since " t is hard to combat, learns to fly! For... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from cares, that never must be mine ! How blest an — that he could gunge : In arguing, too, tiie parson owned his skill, F ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly !... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ! How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try — And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...flew I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of case ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis , d to combat, learns to fly... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...past, Here to return — and die at home at last. Oh blessed retirement ! friend to life's decline, How blessed is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly !... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 416 pages
...bless'd retirement! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! 
