 tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...  Poetical Works - Page 29by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work...latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Bends to-the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his... | |
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 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1828 - 416 pages
...1'ausmosne de sa main." The castles of chivalry had no forbidding or terrible aspect to the poor: " No surly porter stands in guilty state To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; And haply, too, some pilgrim thither led, With many a tale repays the nightly bed." Thibaud, count... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...with ;m age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work...guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate; Bat on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels aronnd befriending virtue's friend ; Bends to the grave... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...; Who quits a wprld where strong temptations try. And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ΠΆ For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate :... | |
 | 1830 - 862 pages
...wretch is born to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dang'rous deep ; Bnt on he moves towards his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to tbe... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1831 - 592 pages
...is born to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dang'rous deep ; i'.ut on he moves towards his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all bis prospects brightening to the... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1831 - 592 pages
...is born to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dang'rous deep ; But on he moves towards Ms latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since " t is hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and...stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from tingate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks... | |
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