| 1789 - 228 páginas
...fatal doom, Hisfoes derision, and his subjects blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health,...shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain their gifts... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...life with multitude of days, In health and sickness, thus the suppliant prays ; Hides from himseli his state, and shuns to know That life protracted — is protracted woe. Time hovers o-er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain the gifts their... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 páginas
...doom ; His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health,...shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain their gifts... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 páginas
...doom ; His foes derision, and his subjects blame, And steals to death frpm anguish and from shame, * Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In health,...shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain their gifts... | |
| George Gregory - 1808 - 352 páginas
...nigra veste senescant." Juv. Sat. x. I. 245. " Enlarge my life with multitude of days, '- In health and sickness, thus the suppliant prays; " Hides from himself...know " That life protracted — is protracted woe. " Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, " And shuts up all the passages of joy : " In vain their... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 páginas
...168—187. His foes derision, and his subjects blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame, * Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In 'health,...shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted wo. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy ; In vain their gifts... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...subjects' blame) And steals to death from anguish and from shame. * Enlarge my life with multitnde of days,' In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant...to know, That life protracted, is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...foes derision; and his subjects blame, And steals to death from angu^h and from shame. ' Knlargc f n alphabet') KmbLu'd to seise the sight ; who runs,mayreud; Who reads, can understan H ides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. • Ver.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 páginas
...subject* blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame. 13 " Enlarge my life with multitude o* days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays : Hides from himself its state, and shuns to knew, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 páginas
...doom, His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame, >'".! steals to death from anguiah and from shame. ' Enlarge my life with multitude of days !' — In health,...shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy. In vain their gifts the... | |
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