 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 Seiten
...; 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 pass'd ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 Seiten
...grave with unperceived demy, While resignation gently slopes the way ; 1 Isaiah xlL 19. And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." The main design and purpose of Divine prophecy is not to give vain inquirers a foreknowledge of what... | |
 | 1814 - 310 Seiten
...; 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 ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...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! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose : There, as... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 Seiten
...friend— Bends 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! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as... | |
 | Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820 - 466 Seiten
...; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way : And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences,...was not granted to Mr. Clarke. The evening of his day was overcast with the dark clouds of despondency and mental depression. An uninterrupted application... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 Seiten
...; 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 ! Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 Seiten
...; 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 pastSweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; •... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 Seiten
...; 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. ODE TO EVENING. Collins. IF aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, O pensive Eve, to soothe... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 Seiten
...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 pass'd. Sweet was the sound, when oft atevening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There,... | |
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But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending 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... 
