 To the same. 5HE clock just struck two, the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket, the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy, are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once...  Select British Classics - Page 761804Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 338 pages
...ber walk.) his midnight round ; and the suicicl lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred perso;i Let me no longer waste the night over the page of antiquity, or the sallies of cotempoi ary genius, but pursue the solitary walk, where vanity, ever changing, but a few hours past... | |
 | 1818 - 596 pages
...thesocket; the watchman forgets the hour in slumber; the laborious and the happy are at rest: nothing wakes, but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard...suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred per.-on. Let me no longer waste the night over tlic page of antiquity, or the s:illies of cotemporanjr... | |
 | 1821 - 384 pages
...the watchman forgets the hour in slumber ; the laborious and the happy are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard...page of antiquity, or the sallies of contemporary genins ; but pursue the solitary walk, where vanity, ever changing, but a few hours past walked before... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy ire at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, ри'Ц he fashion. That is Miss Biddy Evergreen, Miss Biddy, it seems, has money, and as she co iis midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty ami against his own sacred person. Let me no longer... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 pages
...the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying bosvl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...slumber, the laborious and the happy are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelrv, ms to extend even to other animals : the little vermin race are ever treacherou liis midnight round, and the suiciJe lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person. Let me no... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying * Translation of a South Amerimn Ode. bowl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...watchman forgets the hour of slumber — the laborious and the happy are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard...lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person. 2. Let me no longer waste the night over the page of antiquity, or the sallies of cotemporary genius,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 pages
...at rest, and nothing wakes bjt meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The dr.mkard once more nib the destroying bowl, the robber walks his midnight...lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person. 2. Let me no longer waste the night over the page of antiquity, or the sallies of contemporary genius,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...watchman forgets the hour of slumber — the laborious and the happy are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard...lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person. 2. Let me no longer waste the night over the page of antiquity, or the sallies of cotemporary genius,... | |
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