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" 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, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise,... "
Love's strife with the convent; or, The heiress of Strange hall - Page 222
by Edward Massey (novelist.) - 1864
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...moderation slide, And win my way by yielding to the tide, 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 th' unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul ; 40 That keep me from myself,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...candour, and grow all to all ; Back to my native moderation slide, And win my way by yielding to the tide. Long as to him who works for debt the day, Long as...twenty-one} So slow the' unprofitable moments roll That lock op all the functions of my soul, That keep me from myself, and still delay Kite's instant business...
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The British Essayists, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 pages
...prodest, locupletibus eeque, ''.'<<«,: neglect um pueris senibusque nocebit. HOR. 1 Ep. I. 2°. IMITATED. Long as to him, who works for debt, the day ; Long...run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So stow th' unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself,...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1

George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...*' jEque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque, " jt'que neglectum pueris, senibusque nocebit." " Long as to him, who works for debt, the day, " Long...as the year's dull circle seems to run, " When the biisk minor pants for twenty-one J •" So slow th' unprofitable moments roll " That lock up all the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...and grow all to all ; Back to my native moderation slide, And win roy way by yielding to the tide. . Long as to him who works for debt the day, Long as the night to her whose love's away ; I'ong as the year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So slow...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His Son

George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...JEque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque, " iEque neglectum pueris, senibusque nocebit." " Long is to him, who works for debt, the day, " Long as the...circle seems to run, " When the brisk minor pants for twenty -one : " So slow th" unprofitable moments roll " That lock up all the functions of my soul :...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...candour, and grow all to all ; Back to my native moderation slide, And Tin my way by yielding to the tide. Long as to him who works for debt the day, Long as the night to her whose love's away, Lang as the year's dull circle seems to run When the brisk minor pants fur tuenty-one , So flow tlr...
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Tales of Fashionable Life, Volume 3

Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 406 pages
...maketh 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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...and grow all to all; Back to my " native moderation slide, And win my way by yielding to the tide. 11 Long, as to him who works for debt, the day, Long...When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one , So slow th' u unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul; That keep me from myself;...
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The Spectator, Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 pages
...*£qu£ neglectum pueris tenibuaquenocebit. Hon. lEp. i. 20. IMITATED. Long as to him, who works fer debt, the day; Long as the night to her, whose love's...When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So slow th' unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself,...
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