 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must be mine, Plow 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 !... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...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 ea?«; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His beav'n commences ere the world be past!... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...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 case ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat,37 learns to... | |
 | Daniel Pierce Thompson - Montpelier (Vt.) - 1860 - 318 pages
...companions, innocence and health, And their best riches, ignorance of wealth. Then happy they who crown, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease." CHAPTER VII. FIRST MILITARY COMPANY, TOWN LIBRARY, HEALTHINESS OB1 THE TOWN — DEATHS AND BIRTHS UP... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 pages
...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 ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - English language - 1864 - 516 pages
...friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must be mine, 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 - 1864 - 464 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...be supplied. Line 51. And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Line 62. How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease. Line 99. While resignation gently slopes the way, — And, all his prospects brightening to the last,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must be mine, 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 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly !... | |
 | Hubbardston (Mass.), John Murdock Stowe - Hubbardston (Mass.) - 1867 - 160 pages
...of fable. Even the retirement of the place is genial to many hearts. " How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease." These secluded towns have an importance which is sometimes overlooked. They are the nurseries of civilization,... | |
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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! 
