Who quits a world where strong temptations try And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dangerous deep... Annual Register - Page 197edited by - 1771Full view - About this book
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1770 - 604 pages
...dangerous deep ; No furly porter Hands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from his gate, But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While refignation gently Hopes the way ; And all his profpefts... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...dangerous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...; Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While refignation gently flopes the way ; And all his profpedls brightening to the laft, His Heaven commences... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 pages
...dangerous deep j No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way ; And all his... | |
| 1785 - 304 pages
...dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignatio-i gently flopes the way ; And all his profpeAs... | |
| American literature - 1787 - 430 pages
...dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands., in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around...befriending virtue's friend ; Bends to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way, And all his profpefts, brrght'ning to the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...dang'rous deep; No" furly porter Hands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently Hopes the way ; And, all his profpecls... | |
| Great Britain - 1791 - 302 pages
...dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate : But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; £inks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way ;_ And all his... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Essays - 1792 - 308 pages
...dang'rous deepf No fui-ly porter ftands, in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate : But on he moves, to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave, with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way; And all his profpefts... | |
| 1792 - 112 pages
...clangorous deep; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently ffopes the way; And, all his profpects... | |
| James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...dang'rou* deep ; No furly poner Rands in guilty flate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gatel; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend j Sinks to the grave with unpereeiv'd decay, "While refignation gently flopes the way j And, all his... | |
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