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" Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience; A friend like this would suit my sorrows well. "
Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or, Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters ... - Page 110
by John Strang - 1856 - 599 pages
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Le Follet

1863 - 588 pages
...to Lois, only child of the Rev. Sidney Rae, rector of Silvermeadows." OLD AGE. " He wears the mark of many years well spent, Of Virtue, Truth well tried, and wise Experience." ROTVE. Infanthood, with its fleeting joys and sorrows, is past ; Boyhood, gradually waking from the...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...aspect ! Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily become his silver locks : He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience. Rowe,JSi£, The hand of time alone disarms Her face of its superfluous charms ; But adds, for every...
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Book of Elegant Poetical Extracts

John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pages
...Thought*, Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks ; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue truth well tried, and wise experience. ROWB. AUK. " The band of time alone disarms Her face of its superfluous charms ; But adds, for every...
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Outlines of Composition: Designed to Simplify and Develop the Principles of ...

H. Joseph Zander, Timothy Edward Howard - 1869 - 228 pages
...then. " Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks : He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, aud wise experience." BOWK. 67. THE GOOD OLD TIMES. * (AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE ALWAYS PRAISING THE DEEDS...
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Outlines of Composition: Designed to Simplify and Develop the Principles of ...

H. Joseph Zander, Timothy Edward Howard - 1869 - 228 pages
...then. " Ago sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks : He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." 67. THE GOOD OLD TIMES. (AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE ALWAYS PRAISING THE DEEDS AND THE MEN OF THE PAST.)...
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Notes and Queries

1872 - 602 pages
...aspect ! Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks : He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." J. MANUEL. I was considerably grieved on opening the last number of " N. & Q." to find announced therein...
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Notes and Queries

1872 - 592 pages
...aspect ! Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks : He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." J. MAJTCEL I was considerably grieved on opening the last number of " N. & Q." to find announced therein...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...ROSCOMMON. Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience. ROWE: Jane Shore. Thou, full of days, like weighty shocks of corn, In season reap'd, shalt to thy grave...
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Advance Thought

Charles E. Glass - 1876 - 230 pages
...Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily become his silver locks : He wears the mark of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." — Rowe. The best pulpit efforts have signally failed to remove sectarian differences and jealousies...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Virtuous AGE sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks ; He wears live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in His Rmae. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long ; Even wonder'd...
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