 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...Goldsmith. O, bleat retirement,182 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... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...to pain. 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 labor with an age of ea?«; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His beav'n commences ere the world be past!... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...blessed retirement ! 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 !... | |
 | Alfred Miller Heston - Atlantic City (N.J.) - 1904 - 462 pages
...Atlantic City physicians the poet may well say : " O blest retirement ! friend to life's decline — How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease 1" ATLANTIC COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. The Atlantic County Medical Society was organized June 7, 1880,... | |
 | Alfred Miller Heston - Atlantic City (N.J.) - 1904 - 472 pages
...Atlantic City physicians the poet may well say : " O blest retirement ! friend to life's declineHow blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease 1" ATLANTIC COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. The Atlantic County Medical Society was organized June 7, 1880,... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 520 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 !... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline. 40 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 ! 5... | |
 | Lowell H. Glover - Cass County (Mich.) - 1906 - 940 pages
...deserves the rest which is now vouchsafed to him and his life record brings to mind the lines of the poet: "How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease." Mr. Hardy was bom in Otsego county, New York, June 6, 1843. His paternal grandfather, William Hardy,... | |
 | English literature - 1906 - 578 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 labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For... | |
 | Samuel Willard Beakes - Washtenaw County (Mich.) - 1906 - 840 pages
...business is still conducted under the old style, while the subject of this review is. now living retired. "How blest is he Who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease." As Mr. Seabolt prospered here he made investment in a number of paying business enterprises of the... | |
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