 ... he, whom Fortune frowned on, Or whom she lifted up into the throne Of high renown ; but, as a living death, So, dead alive, of life he drew the breath. The body's rest, the quiet of the heart, The travail's ease, the still night's fear was he, And...  Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry - Page 90by Henry Headley - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 912 pages
...travel's ease, the still night's seer was hej And of our life in earth the better part, EE 2 Rever lever of sight, and yet in whom we see Things oft that tide,...never be ; Without respect esteeming equally King Cracsus' pomp, and Irus' povertj. And next in order sad OLD AGE we found: His beard all hoar, his eyes... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...in the Orphan to be -with age grown double. And so Sackville, in Higgins's Tales of Princes, p. 263. And next in order sad old age we found, His beard all hoare, his eyes hollow and blind, With drouping chere still poring on the ground. As on the place where... | |
 | 1811 - 570 pages
...the Orphan to be -with age grortm double. And so Sackville, in Higgins's Tales of Princes, p. 263. And next in order sad old age we found, His beard all hoare, his eyes hollow and blind, With drouping chere still poring on the ground. As on the place where... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 434 pages
...we see Things oft that tide, and oft that never be ; Without respect esteeming equally King Craesus' pomp, and Irus' poverty. And next in order sad OLD...all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind, With drooping chear still poring on the ground, As on the place where Nature him assign'd To rest, when that the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...throne Of high renown ; but as a living death, So dead alive, of life he drew the breath.) ***** ' And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard...all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind ; With drooping chere (countenance) still poring on the ground, As on the place where Nature him assign'd To rest,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...into the throne Of high renown ; but as a living death, So dead alive, of life he drew the breath.) ' And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard all boar, his eyes hollow and blind ; With drooping chere (countenance) still poring on the ground, As... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...still night's fere was he ; And of our life in earth the better part, 1 Companions. — 'Briars, Reever of sight, and yet in whom we see Things oft that tide 1, and oft that never be ; Without respect esteeming equally King Offisus' pomp, and Iras' poverty.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...The trauailes ease, the still nights feere was he. And of our life in earth the better part, Reuer of sight, and yet in whom we see Things oft that tide, and oft that neuer bee. Without respect esteeming equally King Croesus pompe, and Irus pouertie. And next in order... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...The trauailes ease, the still nights feere was he. And of our life in earth the better part, * Reuer of sight, and yet in whom we see Things oft that tide, and oft that neuer bee. Without respect esteeming equally King Croesus pompe, and Irm pouertie. And next in order... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 380 pages
...tide, and oft that neuer bee. Without respect esteeming equally King Croesus ponipe, and Irus pouertie. And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard all hoare, his eyes hollow and blind. With drouping cheere still poring on the ground, As on the place... | |
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