| Penny readings - 1866 - 264 страници
...a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose...Whose night congratulating conscience cheers ; The general favourite as the general friend ; Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? Yet even... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страници
...severe ; He still remember'd that he once was young. Armstrong. An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose...Whose Night congratulating conscience cheers ; The general favourite as the general friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end P Johnson,... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 страници
...tale. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rale prime ' Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An es both browne and bright ; 37. To have seene how...together fought Two howers of a summer's day ; Itt wa 295 Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers ; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend : Such... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 68 страници
...modeft Innocence away ; Whofe peaceful Day Benevolence endears, Whofe Night congratulating Confcience cheers ; The gen'ral Fav'rite as the gen'ral Friend : Such Age there is, and who could wiih its End ? Yet Yet ev'n on this her Load Misfortune flings, To prefs the weary Minutes flagging... | |
| Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 страници
...a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived ut first I must put off These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof, And take the we 295 Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend; Such... | |
| Katharine Ada Esdaile - 1928 - 372 страници
...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 modest innocence...friend : Such age there is, and who shall wish its end ? Now, as Northcote tells us, Reynolds introduced Roubiliac to Dr. Johnson because the sculptor was... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 страници
...of a temperate prime Bless with an age exempt from scom or crime; An age that melts with unpcrceived decay. And glides in modest innocence away; Whose...Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers; The general favorite as the general friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end? Yet even on... | |
| Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - 2000 - 348 страници
...reasonable wish in the poem's context—the wish for a life without narrative, the progression of "An Age that melts with unperceiv'd Decay, / And glides in modest Innocence away" (293-94), a potentially endless life as unconscious subject and invisible object—is consumed by the... | |
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