 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains : He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks, his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains; He turns with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. flexible; so the truly generous arc... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains; He turns with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. flexible; so the truly generous are... | |
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...remains, And, dreaded losses aggravate his pains ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands ; His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks. his gold, and counts it till he dies. But giant, the virtues of a temp'rate... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...and crippled hands, His honds of deht and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime Bless with an r.ge exempt from scorn or crime : An age that melts with unperceiv'd... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...remains, And dreaded losses aggravate his pains ; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temperate... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues, of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides... | |
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And dreaded losses aggravate his pains; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. 
