 ... 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
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 556 pages
...of our life in earth the better part ; Rever of sight, and yet in whom we see Things oft that [tyde] and oft that never be; Without respect, esteem[ing]...CROESUS' pomp and IRUS* poverty. And next, in order sad, OLD-AGE we found : His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind ; With drooping cheer still poring... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1840 - 568 pages
...and yet in whom we see Things oft that [tyde] and oft that never be ; Without respect, esteem [ing] equally King CROESUS' pomp and IRUS' poverty. And next, in order sad, OLD-AGE we found : His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind ; With drooping cheer still poring... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...presently have to give from the latter work, we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : — And, next in order, sad OLD AGE we found, His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blmd, With drooping cheer still poring on the ground, As on the place where nature him assigned To... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...tide, and oft that neuer bee. Without respect esteeming equally King Crasus pompe, and Ins pouertie. And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard all hoarc, his eyes hollow and blind, With drouping cheere still poring on the ground, As on the place... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 298 pages
...The travail's ease, the still night's feer* was he, And of our life in earth the better part, Reaver of sight, and yet in whom we see Things oft that tide,...esteeming equally King Croesus' pomp, and Irus' poverty. * * * * On her (Famine) while we thus firmly fixed our eyes, That bled for ruth of such a dreary sight,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...he ; And of our life in earth the better part, Reever of sight, and yet in whom и е see Things oil that tide," and oft that never be; Without respect esteeming equally King Crœsus' pomp, and Irus' poverty. And next in order sad Old Age we found. His bcanl all hoar, his eyes... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...The travail's ease, the still night's fere was he ; And of our life in earth the better part, Reever of sight, and yet in whom we see Things oft that tide,*...never be ; Without respect esteeming equally King Crci'sus' pomp, and Irus' poverty. And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard all hoar, his... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1857 - 672 pages
...Lord Buckhurst, one of the eldest, and certainly not the least remembered, of our Elizabethan poets : And next in order sad Old Age we found, His beard all hoare, his eyes hollow and blind, With drooping cheer still poring on the ground, As on the place where... | |
 | Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset - 1859 - 258 pages
...The travail's ease, the still night's fear was he, And of our life in earth the hetter part ; Reaver of sight, and yet in whom we see Things oft that tide,...pomp, and Irus' poverty. And next, in order sad, Old Aye we found : His beard all hoar, his eyes hollow and blind, "With drooping cheer still poring on... | |
 | Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset - 1859 - 226 pages
...was he, ,.nd of our life in earth the better part ; leaver of sight, and yet in whom we see "lungs oft that tide, and oft that never be ; Without respect, esteeming equally King Crcesus' pomp, and Irus' poverty. Lnd next, in order sad, Old Age we found : lis beard all hoar, his... | |
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