 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 year, See LEVETT to the grave descend; Officious, innocent, sincere, Obscurely wise, and...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 390avtor: James Boswell - 1904Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 646 strani
...wrote on the death of his humble friend, Levett ? " His virtues walked their narrow round, " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. " In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 strani
...THE DEATH OF DR. LEVETT. By sndden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. CONDEMNED to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, Veil tried through many a varying year, See I^'vett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1878 - 1116 strani
...woods, shall he say, In yonder grave your Druid lies! WILLIAM COLLINS. Os THE DEATH OF DR. LEVETT. sought-for slept among his ashes cold. JOHN KEATS. JOCK OF HAZE blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1879 - 598 strani
...officious, humane, and hospitable.—BUKKE, Reßeetions an the Revolution in France, p. 251. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Which familiar and affectionate qfficiomness and sumptuous cost,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 strani
...we toil from day to day, By snddeu blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1879 - 234 strani
...pages, to quote part of what Thackeray truly calls the " sacred verses " upon Levett:— Well tried through many a varying year See Levett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. In misery's darkest cavern known, His ready help was ever nigh;... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1879 - 344 strani
...officious, humane, and hospitable.—BURKE, Beflectiom on the Revolution in France, p. 251. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. S. 02 196 Orient—Ortolan. Which familiar and affectionate officiousness... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 396 strani
...Lost in wonder, love, and praise. SAMUEL JOHNSON. [1709-1784.] ON THE DEATH OF DR. 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 year, See... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 strani
...woods, shall he say, In yonder grave your Druid lies! WILLIAM COLLINS. ON THE DEATH OF DR. LEVETT. ver a soul to save, If this is Christian work! " Work—work—work! Till th blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See... | |
 | English poets - 1889 - 596 strani
...wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. ON THE DEATH OF DR 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 year , See... | |
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