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" Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work... "
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ... - Page 63
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1791
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 42

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1770 - 604 pages
...cafe ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No furly porter Hands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from his gate, But...
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Annual Register, Volume 13

Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pages
...a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him j»o wretches, born to work and weep ; Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep, j No ftfrly portt-r ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate,...
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Retaliation: a poem. To which is added, some account of the life ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...cafe ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

1785 - 306 pages
...; ' Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...fpurn imploring famine from the gate' ; But on he motes to meet his latter end, Angela around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion. A Collection of Poems: By Lord Carlisle. Lord ...

1785 - 304 pages
...eafe ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fmce 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter...
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse

1787 - 430 pages
...eafe ; Who quits a world where flrong temptations try, And fmce 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands., in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves to meet his latter...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 8

1791 - 302 pages
...; • Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And fince 'tis hard to combat learns to fly. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, • Explore...mine or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate : But on he moves to meet his latter...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 964 pages
...Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! "nr 4c5 4 4 4 •Jo furly porter (lands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; Jut on he moves...
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Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this ...

1792 - 112 pages
..., A youth of labour with an age of eafe; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try; And, fmce 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For For him no...to work and weep , Explore the mine, or tempt the clangorous deep; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ;...
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Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected ...

James Roach - 1792 - 284 pages
...cafe*; Who quits a world where flrong temptations tiy» And, fmce 'tis hard to combat, learns to 9y. -^. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the- mine, or tempt the dang'rou* deep ; No furly poner Rands in guilty flate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gatel; But...
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