 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave, with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past 83. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ? O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, HU heaven commences ere the world he past. B, Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling n'Ues came softenM from below; The swain responsive... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as I passed, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below ; The swain responsive... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...virtue's friend, Sinks to the grave, with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.' Listen to the majesty of the following image, describing the piety, —pure, lofty, and sublime —... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave, with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. The Danger of the Deep. 'Tis pleasant by the cheerful hearth to hear Of tempests and the dangers of... | |
 | Fredericus Theodorus Visser - English language - 2002 - 688 pages
...Ye intend to ... take your leave of Patrick or he gang (OED). | 1770 Goldsmith, Deserted Vill. 112, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. | 1785 Burns, Hey, The Dusty Miller 3, He will win a shilling Or he spend a groat. ) 1785 Idem, The... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past I'1 But this passage, though it is fine, is fanciful. Does he who retires into the country to crown... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...virtue's friend; Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; 110 And, all his prospects brightening to the last. His Heaven commences ere the world be past! fl fl B Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done; Even now, methinks,... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 662 pages
...has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.... Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; 60 The swain responsive... | |
 | Sean Dunne - Fiction - 1957 - 496 pages
...as one of the most fascinating and beautiful effusions of British genius'. Sweet was the sound . . . Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose, There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive... | |
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The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school... 
