 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 strani
...delay. No petty gain disdain'd by pride, The modest wants of ev'ry day The toil of ev'ry day supplied. His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ 'd. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt,... | |
 | 1839 - 592 strani
...struggle. He went to his reward in the full vigour of his powers. The busy day, the peaceful niliht, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm,...were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. A singular circumstance is related of his death : he had been often heard to remark, that if he were... | |
 | 1840 - 368 strani
...walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful...Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his... | |
 | 1840 - 378 strani
...delay, No petty gain disdain'd by pride, The modest wants of ev'ry day The toil of ev'ry day supplied. His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt,... | |
 | Lady Darcy Maxwell, John Lancaster - 1840 - 432 strani
...unpleasant. In this manner for the space of nearly fifty years : " Her virtues walk'd their [daily] round ; Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found, His [various] talents well employ'd." As she walked with God in her own dwelling, so her heart loved the... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 strani
...disdained by pride, The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supplied. His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void : And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. \Thy busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 strani
...disdained by pride ; The modest wants of every day The toil of every dey supplied. His virtues walked The single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 strani
...disdained by pride; The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supplied. His virtues walked е of Commons, the mmbterial party beng strong in numbers. himself, and repented in duet The single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by... | |
 | 1872 - 812 strani
...the great Taskmaster's eye — " His virtues walked their narrow round, Ivor made a pause, nor marked a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found His single talent well employed." During his last illness and suffering he had but one difficulty, that of suppressing his... | |
 | 1848 - 494 strani
...Robert Levett had finished his humble career, the same friend could say of him, " His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void...sure the eternal Master found His single talent well employed." Well might Thackerey call these the " sacred verses " upon Levett, for there is not a grander... | |
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His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. 
