 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 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 with'unperceiv'd decay, And glides... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 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 crime1; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...heart and crippled 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 temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts in unperceived decay,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 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 temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts in unperceived decay,... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...and crippled hands, His honds of deht 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 temperate prime Bless with an r.ge exempt from scorn or crime : An age that melts with unperceiv'd... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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 with unperceiv'd decay, And glides... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 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 with unperceiv'd decay, And glides... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 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 with unperceived decay, And glides... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...and crippled hands, His bond« of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious te seat be feeble woman's breast. But if thou goest, I follow.' ' Peace !' he temperate prime, Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperccived... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 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 Blest with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides... | |
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Av'rice still remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains: He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands... 
