 Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of...  The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays - Page 139publié par - 1811Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1789 - 228 pages
...fatal doom, Hisfoes derision, and his subjects blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health,...shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain their gifts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...life with multitude of days, In health and sickness, thus the suppliant prays ; Hides from himseli his state, and shuns to know That life protracted — is protracted woe. Time hovers o-er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain the gifts their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...doom ; His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health,...shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain their gifts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...doom ; His foes derision, and his subjects blame, And steals to death frpm anguish and from shame, * Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In health,...shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain their gifts... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...nigra veste senescant." Juv. Sat. x. I. 245. " Enlarge my life with multitude of days, '- In health and sickness, thus the suppliant prays; " Hides from himself...know " That life protracted — is protracted woe. " Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, " And shuts up all the passages of joy : " In vain their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...168—187. His foes derision, and his subjects blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame, * Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In 'health,...shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted wo. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy ; In vain their gifts... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...subjects' blame) And steals to death from anguish and from shame. * Enlarge my life with multitnde of days,' In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant...to know, That life protracted, is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...foes derision; and his subjects blame, And steals to death from angu^h and from shame. ' Knlargc f n alphabet') KmbLu'd to seise the sight ; who runs,mayreud; Who reads, can understan H ides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. • Ver.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...subject* blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame. 13 " Enlarge my life with multitude o* days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays : Hides from himself its state, and shuns to knew, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...doom, His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame, >'".! steals to death from anguiah and from shame. ' Enlarge my life with multitude of days !' — In health,...shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy. In vain their gifts the... | |
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