 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
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...is, that hath NO lately sprung up in your favour." ' 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...is, that hath so lately sprung up in your favour." q 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,... | |
 | Scotland - 1825 - 868 pages
...that they had not found out their right trim. They are tedious moments till the bed is ready — " Long as to him who works for debt the day, Long as...Long as the year's dull circle seems to run, When the bright minor pants for twentyone." POPE. As long, or longer than any of these alternatives, does it... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...eandour, and grow all to all ; Baek to my native moderation slide, And win my way by yielding to the tide. H eirele seems to run, When thr brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So slow th' unprofitable moments roll,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 358 pages
...the heart sick ; and time, I can answer for it, passes most slowly to those who are sick." " ' Slow as the year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one,' " said Mr. Walsingham, smiling, as he looked at young Beaumont. " But I think it is the mixture of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...Long as to him who works for debt the day, Long им the night to her whose love's away ; Long ав the year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So alow tli' unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of the soul ; That keep me from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...candour, and grow all to all ; Back to my native moderation slide, And win my way by yiejding to the tide. Long as to him who works for debt the day; 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 ; That keep me from myself;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 234 pages
...to her whose love's ; Long as the year's dull circle seems to When the brisk minor pants for twent So slow th' unprofitable moments roll That lock up all the functions of my EC That kcpn m» fw«v. ™,™lr — J -•->' 'I'll do what Mead and Clieaelden advise, To keep the?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...tide. Long as to him who works for debt the day, j>ng as Ihc night to her whose love '» away ; ,ong Cibberian torehcnd, or Cimmerian gloom. Kind self-conceit the unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul ; ^hat keep me from myself;... | |
 | 1847 - 558 pages
...matrum : Sio mibi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora. Long u to him who workf for debt the day : Long u the night to her whose love's away : Long as the year's...When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one : So slow ili' unprofitable moments roll That lock up all the pleasures of my soul. In such a frame of spirit,... | |
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