 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 560 pages
...grief.* O luxury ! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchang'd are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thce, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own : At every draught more large... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...eurst by Heaven's deeree, How ill exehang'd are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, wtth insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to siekly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own : At every draught more large and large... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...grief. O luxury ! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their...thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own : At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...0 luxury ! thon eurs'd by heaven's deeree, How ill-exehang'd are things like these for thee ! flow do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee to siekly greatness grown, Boa 1 t of a fiorid vigour not their own : At ev'ry draught more large and... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...destroy ! Kingdoms by thee to siekly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own : At ev'ry draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till aapp'd their strength, and ev'ry part unsound, Lkiwn down, they sink, and spread a ruin round. Goldsmith's... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...grief. 0 Luxury ! thou cursed by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy I love. Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own : At every... | |
 | Devotional literature, English - 1855 - 488 pages
...or even vanity! O Luxury! thou curst by heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are charities for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! There is a great danger lest a constant attention tc so right a practice as an invariable economy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...— 0 luxury ; thou curs'd by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for theel IIuw do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their...of a florid vigour not their own ; At every draught large and more large they grow, A bloated mass of rank, unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...grief.* O luxury ! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchang'd are things like these for thee I How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their...thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own : At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass of rank, unwieldy... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...grief. O, luxury ! thou cursed by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee '. How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their...thee to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigor not their own. At every draught more large and large they grow, last, A bloated mass of rank... | |
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O luxury ! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their... 
