| Steam boat companion - 1824 - 228 pages
...350 feet. " 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... | |
| 1824 - 596 pages
...,1Mar,i. O blest retirement ! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...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... | |
| General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...at last. 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 labour with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to... | |
| English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...at last. 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 labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...at last. О blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, ion he generally wears, by draining his superfluous moisture labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a wprld where strong temptations try. And, since 'tis hard to... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...home at last. Oblc-t 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... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...decline! 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... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...Goldsmith, after alluding to some of the beauties of rural life in the Deserted Village, says, — " How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of case." It has been observed by Bayle, that nothing is more extraordinary than... | |
| Adam Waldie - Literature - 1833 - 640 pages
...at last. O, blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from core 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 'I is hard... | |
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