 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ! How happy 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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...at last. O bleat 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...first she flew I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. 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 'tis , d to combat, learns to fly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 1154 pages
...— " Oh bless'd 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 labor with an age of case ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...to return — and die at home at last. Oh blessed retirement ! friend to life's decline, 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 !... | |
 | Thomas Wallace - 1849 - 142 pages
...families 105 CHAPTER I. THE KESIDENCE OF THE FAMILY. " O blest Retirement, friend to life's decline; How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ! " GOLDSMITH. MANY years have winged their noiseless but rapid flight,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 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 labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! *... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...seclusion : Oh bless'd 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 labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 402 pages
...• Oh bless'd 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 labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...retirement ! 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. For... | |
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