 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...last. 0 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 pages
...Retirement. 0 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... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...blest 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 't is hard to combat, learns to fly ! For... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...friend to life's deeline, Retreats from eare, that never must be mine, How blest is he who erowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, sinee 'tis hard to eombat, learns to fly ! *... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...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 labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 366 pages
...with those lines of Goldsmith, appropriately chosen by Maude as an epigraph to his " WENSLEYDALE." 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 pages
...last. pi O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, 1 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 ; ~Yho quits a woild where strong temptations try, ..md, since 'tis hard... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...last! Oh blest retirement ! friend to life's decline I 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, smce 'tis hard to... | |
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