 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...Here to return — and die at home at last. O 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 labour with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat,... | |
 | Thomas Maude - Bolton Castle (England) - 1816 - 136 pages
...excludes avarice, vanity, pride, and every more turbulent passion. WENSLEYDALE; RURAL CONTEMPLATIONS. How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline> Retreat from cares, that never must he mine. How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour, with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to comhat,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowois, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong... | |
 | William Upcott - Bibliotheca topographica britannica - 1818 - 516 pages
...pages. LXIV. WENSLEYDALE: or Rural Contemplations- a Poem. By T. MAUDE, Esq. The FOURTH EDITION. " How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease : Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...Here to return — and die at home at last. O 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 labour with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...return — and die at home at last. O 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 488 pages
...Here to return — and die at home at last. O 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 labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat,... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...griefs -were giv'n, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heav'n. RETIREMENT. — From the Same. O BL,EST Retirement ! friend to life's decline, Retreat...who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ! Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to combat,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...Here to return — and die at home at last. O 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 labour with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat,... | |
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Retreat from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour 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... 
