| William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 404 sayfa
...crown : He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. Dryden. XXIV THE QUIET LIFE 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,... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 394 sayfa
...crown : He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. Dryden. xxrv THE QUIET LIFE 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. AVell tried through many a varying year,... | |
| Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 394 sayfa
...remembered the verses — ' the sacred verses ' — which Johnson wrote on this occasion : ' Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day ; By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. ' Well tried through many a varying... | |
| Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 sayfa
...remembered the verses — ' the sacred verses ' — which Johnson wrote on this occasion : ' Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day ; By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. ' Well tried through many a varying... | |
| Walter Scott - 1894 - 494 sayfa
...year's acquaintaince with this Vanitas Vanitatum presses more fully on our conviction. " Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts melt away." I am sure Mrs. Morritt must have deeply... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 sayfa
...understood when etherealized by distance. ON THE DEATH OF MR. ROBERT LEVETT. Samuel Johnson. 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 try'd through many a varying year,... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1896 - 504 sayfa
...mayst smile, while all around thee weep. SIR w. JONES. CCiv ON THE DEATH OF MR. ROBERT LEVET 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. Well try'd through many a varying... | |
| Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 sayfa
...! Britons never shall be slaves ! CCXXXVL J. Thomson. ON THE DEATH OF MR. ROBERT LEVETT. CONDEMNED to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying... | |
| Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 sayfa
...all was light. Alexander Pope. 63 ON THE DEATH OF MR. ISAAC LEVET (A Practiser in Physic.) Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying... | |
| John Cann Bailey - 1900 - 330 sayfa
...1605-1654. ON THE DEATH OF MR ROBERT LEVET [First printed in the " Annual Register" for 1783.] Condemned to Hope's delusive mine As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying... | |
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