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" Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless... "
Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Страница 143
по Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 страници
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 страници
...that it might rather pass for his than for Dr. Johnson's. ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT LEVETT. Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend Officious, innocent, sincere,...

Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Том 1

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 страници
...that it might rather pass for his than for Dr. Johnson's. ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT LEVETT. Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to...or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend Officious, innocent, sincere, Of...

Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 страници
...Truth diffuse her radiance from the stance. On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic. Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See...

poems and letters

bernard barton - 1853
...Woodbridge could go on without him, never once occurred to me. Well might old Johnson say, " Condcmn'd to hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to...blast, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away." I actually begin to draw comfort from the thought that we too must, ere long, drop away too. I seem...

The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 страници
...makes as good a sky, And I but flatter less. ON THE DEATH OF MR ROBERT LEVETT, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC. 1 CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. J) 2 Well tried through many a varying year,...

The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 страници
...makes as good a sky, And I but flatter less. ON THE DEATH OP MR ROBERT LEVETT, A PRACTISEK IN PHYSIC. 1 CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. 2 Well tried through many a varying year, See...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Том 4

James Boswell - 1859 - 316 страници
...affectionate regard for Levett, that he honoured his memory with the following pathetic verses : — " Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from...through many a varying year, See LEVETT to the grave deseend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Том 4

James Boswell - 1859 - 320 страници
...affectionate regard for Levett, that he honoured his memory with the following pathetic verses : — " Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from...blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. \Vell try'd through many a varying year, See LEVETT to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere,...

Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and Wisdom

William Swinton - 1859 - 326 страници
...attentive — full of offices. Thus I find in Dr. Johnson's poem on his servant, Levett : " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave...innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend !" a person or thing, without ' ANIMADVERTING ' thereon, or have a conception without getting into...

The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 266 страници
...— the sacred verses — which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend Levett? " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave...innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. "In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh ; Where hopeless anguish poured the...




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