 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1795 - 608 pages
...employment becomes a labour, and the ffighteft inconvenience an agony.—The rofes of pleafure feldom laft long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only rofes which da not retain their fweetnefs after they have loft their beauty. ARE ( 18 ) A REQUEST TO... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1795 - 594 pages
...employment becomes a labour, and th* ffighteft inconvenience an agony. — The rofes of pleafure feldom laft long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them ; for they are the only rofes which do not retain their fweetnefs after they have loft their beauty. AREA REQUEST TO THE DIVINE... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Conduct of life - 1798 - 362 pages
...employment becomes a labour, and the flighteft inconvenience an agony. The rofes of pleafure feldom laft long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only rofes which do not retain their fweetnefs after they have loft their beauty. DUTY OF OLD AGE. A MATERIAL... | |
 | English literature - 1799 - 334 pages
...Alas ! he did not reflect that they withered in the very gathering. The rofes of plealure feldom laft long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them ; for they are the only rofes which do not retain their fweetnefs afrer they have loft their beauty. The heathen poets often... | |
 | T Nixon - 1806 - 176 pages
...poison is iu every dish. There is a couch which invites us to repose, ljut to slumber upon it is death. The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn...their sweetness after they have lost their beauty. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. T. HE hope of receiving much spiritual advantage should reconcile us to the... | |
 | English literature - 1794 - 802 pages
...reflc.fl' that they withered in the very gathering. The rflfei of pleafure {eldom laft long ejnbugh to adorn the brow of him who plucks them ; for they are the only rofes which do not retain thoir iweetnefs after they have loft their "beauty. The heathen poets often... | |
 | English literature - 1794 - 826 pages
...' he did not reflcft that they witherr ed in the very gathering. The rofes of pleafure feldom laft long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them ; for thc-y are the only rofes which do not retain their fweetnefs aficr they have loft, their beSuty. The... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1809 - 344 pages
...hands of that amiable prelate. "Let us crown ourselves with rose buds before they be withered," suid Solomon's libertine. Alas! he did not reflect, that...and voluptuousness ; lest the season for indulging m them should puss unimproved. The dark and uncertain notions, not to say the absolute disbelief, which... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...the most agreeably in the world, only with her malice. — The Confederacy — Fanbrugh. CCCCLXX1X. \ The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them, and tkey are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...company the most agreeably in the world, only with her malice.—The Confederacy—Vanbrugh. CCCCLXXIX. The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them, and they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.—Blair.... | |
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The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them ; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty. 
