 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...we toil from day to day, By sndden blasts or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Vt i still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor, letler'd arrogance, deny... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. II. Well tried, through many a varying1 year, See Levett to the grave descend; Officious — innocent — sincere. Of every friendless name the friend. ra. Yet still lie fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor lettered arrogance... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. П. Well tried, through many a varying year. See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious — innocent — sincere. Of every friendless name the friend. III. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor lettered arrogance... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...through many a varying year, See Level to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of ev'ry friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind ; Nor, letterM Arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unre£u'd. When feinting nature call'd for aid, And hov'ring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of ev'ry friendless name the friend. Vet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...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 Levet to the grave...affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit uurefin'd. When fainting Nature call'd for aid, And hovering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...biasts or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Level to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere,...affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd. When fainting nature call'd for aid, And hovering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave descend, , • Officious, innocent, sincere, Of ev'ry friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 pages
...slow decline " Our social comforts drop away. " Well try'd through many a varying year, " See LEVETT to the grave descend; " Officious, innocent, sincere, " Of every friendless name the friend. * See an account of him in " The Gentleman's Magazine," Feb. 1785. " Yet still he fills affection's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 382 pages
...blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Well try'd through many a varying year, See LEVETT to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere,...affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind, Nor, letter'd arrogance,' deny Thy praise to merit unrefm'd. When fainting Nature call'd for aid, And hov'ring... | |
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See LEVET to the grave descend; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd. 
