Long has the love of gold, that meanest rage, And latest folly of man's sinking age, Which, rarely venturing in the van of life, While nobler passions wage their heated strife, Comes skulking last, with selfishness and fear, And dies, collecting lumber... The Works of Thomas Moore: Epistles, odes, and other poems - Page 152by Thomas Moore - 1823Full view - About this book
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 328 pages
...politician, who may labour under a moment's delusion with respect to the purity of American patriotism. Long has the love of gold, that meanest rage And latest...fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear ! Long has it palsied every grasping hand And greedy spirit through this bartering land ; Turn'd life to traffic,... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 370 pages
...with all age's chill, The apathy of wrong, the bosom's ice, A slow and cold stagnation into vice ! Long has the love of gold, that meanest rage, And...and fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear ! z * Long has it palsied every grasping hand V And greedy spirit through this bartering land ; Turn'd... | |
| Literature, Modern - 1806 - 550 pages
...with all age's chill, The apathy of wrong, the bosom's ice, A slow and cold stagnation into vice ! " Long has the love of gold, that meanest rage, And...life, While nobler passions wage their heated strife, Come skulking last, with selfishness and fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear! Long has it... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 344 pages
...with all age's chill, The apathy of wrong, the bosom's ice, A slow and cold stagnation into vice ! Long has the love of gold, that meanest rage And latest...strife, Comes skulking last, with selfishness and fear, Ancl dies, collecting lumber in the rear! Long has it palsied every grasping hand And greedy spirit... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 340 pages
...with all age's chill, The apathy of wrong, the bosom's ice, A slow and cold stagnation into vice ! Lo'ng has the love of gold, that meanest rage, And...fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear ! Long has it palsied every grasping hand And greedy spirit through this bartering. land; Turn'd life to traffic,... | |
| Robert Grenville Wallace - India - 1825 - 354 pages
...tendency to produce, and of the wretched state of the peasantry of Ireland. 16 N«. XII. FAMILY AFFAIRS. " The love of gold, that meanest rage, And latest folly...and fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear!" IIOOKK. " I HAVE often thought I never was quite so happy as when I accompanied my family from Dublih... | |
| Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 pages
...tendency to produce, and of the wretched state of the peasantry of Ireland. NO. XII. FAMILY AFFAIRS. " The love of gold, that meanest rage, And latest folly...and fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear ! " MOORE. " I HAVE often thought I never was quite so happy as when I accompanied my family from Dublin... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...vice! Long has the love of gold, that meanest r-igo And latest folly of man's sinking age, \Vhirh, rarely venturing in the van of life, While nobler passions wage their heated strife, Coinés skulking last, with selfishness and fear, And dies, collecting lumber in ihc rear! Long has... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...all age's chill. The apathy of wrong, the bosom's ice, A slow and cold stagnation into vice! !x»ng has the love of gold, that meanest rage And latest...fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear! Long has it palsied every grasping hand And greedy spirit through this bartering land ; Turn'd life to traffic,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1829 - 470 pages
...with all age's chill» The apathy of wrong, the bottom's ice, A slow and cold stagnation iiito vice1 Long has the love of gold, that meanest rage And latest...man's sinking age, Which, rarely venturing in the vau of life, While nobler passions wage their heated *trife. Comes skulking last, with seliibhnet»... | |
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