 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 590 pages
...law, but hopes that he will gain more than he shall have lost. Closing the survey, he thus concludes: Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares, the thorns of life, VOL. III.-I8 The visage wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night ; The tedious... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1899 - 600 pages
..."Farewell to the Muse," after bidding a fond adieu to the woods and streams of his youth, he wrote — " Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares, the thorns of life, The visage wan, the purblind sight, The toil by day, the lamp by night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...Clear, deep, and regularly true ; And other doctrines thence imbibe Than lurk within the sordid scribe; erable streng purblind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute,... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1911 - 472 pages
...scenes must charm me now no Lost to the field, and torn from you, Farewell! a long and last adieu! Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the...wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp by night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench,... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1911 - 936 pages
...scenes must charm me now no more; Lost to the field, and torn from you, Farewell! a long and last adieu! Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the...wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp by night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench,... | |
 | American literature - 1911 - 482 pages
...scenes must charm me now no Lost to the field, and torn from you, Farewell! a long and last adieu! Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the...wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp by night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...which he will devote himself to another mistress, and, absorbed in the study of " Britannia's laws," " Observe how parts with parts unite In one harmonious...rule of right ; See countless wheels distinctly tend liy various laws to one great end." These lines are usually attributed to the year 1741, when Blackstone... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Books and reading - 1919 - 432 pages
...united boast of many an age ; Where mixed, yet uniform, appears The wisdom of a thousand years. . . . Observe how parts with parts unite In one harmonious...distinctly tend By various laws to one great end. There have been famous men of letters who at times felt the desire to compose in verse, but I find... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1923 - 440 pages
...which he will devote himself to another mistress, and, absorbed in the study of " Britannia's laws," " Observe how parts with parts unite In one harmonious...distinctly tend By various laws to one great end." These lines are usually attributed to the year 1741, when Blackstone entered himself at the Middle... | |
 | Bar associations - 1924 - 674 pages
...entry to the profession of the law:— " Then welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares and thorns of life, The visage wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp by night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate." 'Read before the... | |
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Observe how parts with parts unite In one harmonious rule of right ; See countless wheels distinctly tend By various laws to one great end : While mighty Alfred's piercing soul Pervades and regulates the whole. 
