 So slow th' unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul; That keep me from myself; and still delay Life's instant business to a future day: That task, which as we follow, or despise, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise; Which...  The Spectator: A Digest-index - Page 12by William Wheeler - 1892 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Catharine Cappe - 1822 - 494 pages
...kitchen-fire, after my aunts had retired to rest, bedewing the paper with many tears. " How slow ill' unprofitable moments roll " That lock up all the functions of my soul! ** That keep me from myself, and still de/ay >* Life's instant business to a future day; " Thai lask, which as we follow... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...all to all; Back to my native moderation slide, And win my way by yielding to the tide. So slow the' unprofitable moments roll That lock up all the functions of my soul, That keep me from myself, and still delay Life's instant business to a future day; That task which, as we follow or despise,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 pages
...prodest, locupletibus aeque, jEque neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit. HOR. 1 Ep. i. 20. IMITATED. Long as to him, who works for debt, the day ; Long...up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself, anil still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task, which as we follow, or... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...paulieribus In-odfst, locupletibus izqne, ;Eque ncglectum lnteris senibusque noeebit. HOR. EP. i. 1 . 20. Long as to him who works for debt, the day ; Long...up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself, and still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task, which as we follow, or... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...prodest, locupletibus reqnc, ^Ecjue neglectum paeris senibusque nocebit. Hon. 1 Ep. i. 20. IMITATED. Long as to him, who works for debt, the day ; Long...up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself, and still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task, which as we follow, or... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 406 pages
...jfauperibtts jtrodcst, locujdctihus eeque, jEque ticgleclum jrueris senibusque noeebit. HOB. EP. i. 1 . g Long as to him who works for debt, the day ; Long...up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself, and still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task, which as we follow, or... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 pages
...MqUdpauperibusprodett, locupletibus teque, Myid neglectum pueris aenibusque nocebit. Hcut. 1 Ep. i. 20. IMITATED. Long as to him, -who works for debt, the day ; long...When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So slow tli" unprofitable moments roll, Hat lock up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...candour, and grow all to all ; Back to my native moderation slide. And win my way by yielding to the tide. ed by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite...and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults myself; and still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task, which as we follow, or... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 pages
...sequ$: JEque negtedum pueris senibusque nocebit. Horn. IMITATED. Long as to him who works for debt (he day; Long as the night to her whose love's away: Long...up all the functions of my soul; That keep me from myself, and still delay Life's instant business to a future day: That task, which as we follow, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...is, that hath so lately sprung up in your favour." 1 Long as to him who works for debt, the day, 35 Long as the night to her whose love's away, Long as...When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So slow the 'unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul ; 40 That keep me from myself,... | |
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