 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...affectionate regard for Levett, that he honoured his memory with the following pathetic verses : — " Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year, See LEVETT... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...that it might rather pass for his than for Dr. Johnson's. ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT LEVETT. Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend Officious,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...Truth diffuse her radiance from the stance. On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic. Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from...blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levct to the grave descend, Ofticious, innocent, sincere,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...that it might rather pass for his than for Dr. Johnson's. ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT LEVETT. Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett... | |
 | bernard barton - 1853
...Woodbridge could go on without him, never once occurred to me. Well might old Johnson say, " Condcmn'd to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away." I actually begin to draw comfort from the thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...makes as good a sky, And I but flatter less. ON THE DEATH OP MR ROBERT LEVETT, A PRACTISEK IN PHYSIC. 1 CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from...blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. 2 Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...makes as good a sky, And I but flatter less. ON THE DEATH OF MR ROBERT LEVETT, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC. 1 CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from...blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. J) 2 Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; tJ Officious, innocent,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. ON THE DEATH OF DR LEVETT. CONDEMNED to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to...blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere,... | |
 | Emile B. Gardette - Botany - 1863 - 64 pages
...less true of our late friend, Dr. Brinckl£, whose name I substitute for that of Levet: " Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to...blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. " Well tried thro' many a varying year, See, BrinckU, to the grave descend, Assiduous, innocent, sincere,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...beloved no more ! Alexander Pope. CLXIV ON THE DEATH OF MR ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC. Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to...blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, 5 See Levet to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere,... | |
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CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. 
