 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 pages
...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, Of every friendless name the friend. 1 The truth of this has been proved by sad experience. — BOSWELL. Mrs. Boswell died Juna 4, 1789.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...toil fron 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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... | |
 | 1840 - 378 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, letter'd Arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefined. When fainting Nature call'd for aid, And hov'ring... | |
 | 1840 - 368 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 descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of ev'ry friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely... | |
 | Douglas Allport - 1841 - 314 pages
...italics are copied verbatim from Dr. Johnson's lines on the death of Mr. Robert Levet : — Well tried through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave...innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name, the friend. 7. In memory of JOHN GOODALL, who departed this life June 22, 1815, aged 75 years : — He was —... | |
 | 1841 - 780 pages
...Johnson's verses on the death of Dr. Ixivett :— " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere. Of every friendless name the friend." The relations of a deceased physician would scarcely now be pleased to hear him publicly commended... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 556 pages
...friend in those beautiful elegiac lines, which when once read are never forgotten : — Well tried through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave...innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Boswell informs us that Dr. Johnson himself lived at one time in Fetter Lane. The celebrated Praise... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...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,...kind, Nor lettered arrogance deny Thy praise to .merit undefined. When fainting Nature called for aid, f And hovering Death prepared the blow, His vigorous... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 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,1 deny Thy praise to merit unrefined. 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. 
