 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...How bless'd is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis...born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; Nor surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis...weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...Howblest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis...born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try. And, since 'tis...born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate :... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...How blest is he who crowns , in shades like these , A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis...weep , Explore the mine , or tempt the dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state , To spurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...village, but the independence of the poet, who had hoped to retire there, where (odd echo of Carew) No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate. It is not only the frustration of that understandable hope — my long vexations past, Here to return... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try. And, since 'tis hard to combat, leams to fly ! 6g. Extracts from Joseph Cradock's Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs dealing with Goldsmith... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...mine, How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease; 100 Who quits a world where strong temptations try And, since 'tis hard to combat, leams to fly. For him no wretches, bom to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dangerous deep;... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...mine, How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis...state To spurn imploring famine from the gate; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels round befriending Virtue's friend; Bends to the grave with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...— How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis...stands in guilty state To spurn imploring famine from his gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; 2 their... | |
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tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate... 
