 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...dreaded loffes aggravate his pains; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with...age exempt from fcorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with fuipicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies....prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime j An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in tnodeft innocence away; Whofe peaceful day... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...pains ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands i Or views his coffers with fufpicious eyes, Unlocks...counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp' rate prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime ; i An age that melts with unperceiv'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1789 - 248 pages
...dreaded lofles aggravate his pains ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands. His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with...dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Elefs with an age exempt from (corn or crime ; An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 442 pages
...and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime : An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 428 pages
...and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtue* of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime : -tef An age that melts... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 370 pages
...; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, fiis bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or Or views his coffers with fufpicious eyes, Unlocks...age exempt from fcorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modeft innocence away ; Whofe peaceful day Benevolence endears,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coflers with fufpicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts...dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bids with an age exempt from icorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, .And glides... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 422 pages
...dreaded lofles aggravate his pains ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with...counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp' rate prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...dreaded lofles aggravate his p.iins ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled handsa His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with...counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp' rate prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd... | |
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Av'rice still remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains: He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands... 
