 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 sayfa
...regard for Levett, that he honoured his memory with the following pathetic verses : — " Condemn'd atest inclination to look into that chamber, to talk of By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 sayfa
...affectionate regard for Levett,* that he honoured his memory with the following 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1900 - 562 sayfa
...mention talents and accomplishments. I have never felt so truly what Johnson says so well — 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.1 ' I am not sure whether it was your... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 sayfa
...shall he say, In yonder grave your Druid lies! WILLIAM COLLINS. Ox THE DEA TH OF DR. LEVETT. COSDEMX'D 4 i4 By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 sayfa
...;You can hang or drown at last ! On the 'Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic (~^ONDEMN'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. 51* Well tried through many a varying... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sayfa
...Death of Dr. Robert Levet," where he uses a simple four-line stanza with weight and dignity: 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. This has the simple gravity of a... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 sayfa
...poor begins by demonstrating how Levet lived among the ill and died, in a sort of "mine." 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. [Poems 233.1-4] Devoted to a life... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sayfa
...by poverty depressed: (1. 177) On the Death of Mr. Robert Level, a Practiser in Physic 1 Condemned dith P. Hazen By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. (1. 1—4) 3 His virtues walked their... | |
 | Wayne J. Urban - 2000 - 1372 sayfa
...not part of the elite that had penned the humanist reflections of the pre-Enlightenment: 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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 422 sayfa
...shall be taken away even that which he hath. ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET SAMUEL JOHNSON 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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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. 
