 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 Seiten
...with those lines of Goldsmith, appropriately chosen by Maude as an epigraph to his " WENSLEYDALE." How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resignation gently slopes the way. MIDDLEHAM CASTLE.... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 Seiten
...O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from care, that never must he mine. How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits u world where strong; temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches,... | |
 | James Henry Hawley - 1920 - 922 Seiten
...progressive farmer of Ada county and today is enjoying in well earned rest the fruits of his former toll. "How. blest is he Who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor With an age of ease." JAMES H. MASON. James H. Mason, a market gardener residing at Parker, was... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1922 - 288 Seiten
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour...quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
..."A cool one, indeed." GOETHE — Old Age. e О blest retirement! friend to life's decline-^Retreats . LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. 36. The young may die,...IXJNGFELLOW — Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. IV GOLDSMITH — Deserted Village. L. 97. 7 I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 Seiten
...home at last. 0 blest retirement ! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must bo mine. How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to... | |
 | 1926 - 780 Seiten
...Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 Seiten
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy human life to endless sleep: Thus is Nature's vesture wrought To instruct 100 Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly!... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...with a dream of rural quiet and seclusion: Oh bless'd retirement ! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try. And, since 'tis hard to... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...blest retirement, friend to life's decline. Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease; 100 Who quits a world where strong temptations try And, since 'tis hard to combat, leams to fly. For... | |
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Here to return, and die at home at last. 0 blest retirement, friend to life's decline ! Retreats from care that never must be mine — How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease... 
