 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pages
...heart that in the " Deserted Village " foreshadowed these gtnuine "latter days :" " But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending...virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived demy, While resignation gently slopes the way ; 1 Isaiah xlL 19. And all his prospects brightening... | |
 | English literature - 1816
...where strong temptation* <ry, - , And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly • Onward he moves, to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all bis prospects bright'ning to... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on be moves to meet bis latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all his prospects brightening to the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...• No furly porter flands 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 flopes the way : And all his profpefts bright'ning to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn 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 resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...ease, he endeavours to place his mind in a state of tranquillity and recollection — making a pauser as it were, before his departure from this world ;...decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all bis prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences, ere the world be past. This envied portion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn 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 resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...; Ko surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn Imploring famine from the gate ; Bat on he moves to meet his latter end, , Angels around befriending virtue's friend *, Sinks to the grave with oupereeiv'd decay, AVhile resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to... | |
 | William Beloe - 1817 - 400 pages
...421. Of the venerable personage here depicted, it may be truly said, that he l Sinks to the grave by unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all his prospects brightning to the last, His heaven commences ere this world be past. CHAP. CHAP. LXVI. P. 427. " As... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...the gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend— Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation...last, His heaven commences ere the world be past! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as... | |
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Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. 
