 | Several Hands - 1760 - 588 pages
...following picture of Old Age may fcrye our Readers as a ftccimen. i. And next, in order fad, Old-age we found : • His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind : With drooping cheer flill poiing on the ground. As on the place where Nature him afiignM To relt. when that the bitters... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1781 - 620 pages
...Without refpeft, efteemed equally King CROESUS* pomp and IRUS* poverty. And next, in order fad, OLD-AGE we found : His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind ; With drooping cheer ftill poring on the ground, As on the place where nature him affign'd To reft, when that the... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...tide, and oft that never be ; Without respect esteeming equally King Cracsus' pomp, and Irus' povertj. And next in order sad OLD AGE we found: His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind, With drooping cheer still poring on the ground, As on ihe place where Nature him assign'd To rest, when that the... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...in the Orphan to be -with age grown double. And so Sackville, in Higgins's Tales of Princes, p. 263. And next in order sad old age we found, His beard all hoare, his eyes hollow and blind, With drouping chere still poring on the ground. As on the place where... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...the Orphan to be -with age grortm double. And so Sackville, in Higgins's Tales of Princes, p. 263. And next in order sad old age we found, His beard all hoare, his eyes hollow and blind, With drouping chere still poring on the ground. As on the place where... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...tide, and oft that never be ; Without respect esteeming equally King Croesus' pomp, and Irus' poverty. And next in order sad OLD AGE we found : His beard...all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind, With drooping cheer still poring on the ground, As on the place where Nature him assign'd To rest, when that the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...throne Of high renown ; but as a living death, So dead alive, of life he drew the breath.) ***** ' And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard...hoar, his eyes hollow and blind ; With drooping chere (countenance) still poring on the ground, As on the place where Nature him assign'd To rest, when that... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...into the throne Of high renown ; but as a living death, So dead alive, of life he drew the breath.) ' And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard all boar, his eyes hollow and blind ; With drooping chere (countenance) still poring on the ground, As... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...', and oft that never be ; Without respect esteeming equally King Croesus' pomp, and Irus' poverty. And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard...all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind ; With drooping cheer still poring on the ground, As on the place where Nature him assign'd To rest, .when that the... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...tide,t and oft that never be. Without respect esteeming equally King Craesus' pomp, and Irus' poverty. And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind, With drooping cheer still poring on the ground, As on the place where nature him assigned To rest, when that the... | |
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And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind, With drooping cheer still poring on the ground, As on the place where nature him... 
