 | William Cowper - 1818 - Страниц: 314
...Lucrative offices are seldom lost For want of pow'rs proportion'd to the post : Give e'en a dunce th' employment he desires, And he soon finds the talents...not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. vot. I. 17* The vet'ran steed, excus'd his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - Страниц: 448
...oil for its own wheels. But in Us arduous enterprise to close His active years with indolent repose, His utmost faculties, severe indeed! ''Tis easy to...grace ; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quiet vacant is a mind distressed. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - Страниц: 508
...indolent repose, He finds the labours of that state exceed His utmost faculties, severe indeed. ''I'is easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage...a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind qnite vacant is a mind distress**!. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - Страниц: 556
...employment he desires, And he soon finds the talents it requires ; A business with an income at his heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels. But...occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. The veteran ^teed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - Страниц: 220
...arduous enterprise to close His active years with indolent repose, He finds the labours of that stale exceed His utmost faculties, severe indeed. 'Tis easy...occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. The veteran steed, excused his task at length; In kind compassion of his failing strength,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - Страниц: 314
...indolent repose, He finds the labours of that state exceed His utmost faculties, severe indeed. ' T is easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage...rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. The vet'ran steed, excus'd his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength, And turn'd into... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - Страниц: 844
...wide. We need not look far into the world, to see the exemplification of this melancholy truth. — Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage...rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. The vet'ran steed excus'd his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength, And turn'd into... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - Страниц: 470
...Of half the toils they must encounter there. v Lucrative offices are seldom lost For want of pow'rs proportion'd to the post ; Give e'en a dunce the employment...rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. The yet'ran steed, excus'd his task at length, In kind compassion of his (ailing strength, And turn'd into... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - Страниц: 432
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Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace : Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind- quite vacant is a mind distressed. 
