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" Vast happiness enjoy thy gay allies ! A youth of follies, an old age of cares ; Young yet enervate, old yet never wise, Vice wastes their vigour, and their mind impairs, Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtless ease, Reserving woes for age, their prime they... "
The preceptor: containing a general course of education [ed. by R. Dodsley]. - Page 541
by Preceptor - 1758
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The Judgment of Hercules, a Poem: By a Student of Oxford. To which is ...

Robert Lowth - English poetry - 1743 - 44 pages
...• To fuch go footh thy fpeech, and fpread thy tempting fnare. XX. Vaft The JUDGMENT cf HERCULES, 13 xx. Vaft happinefs enjoy thy gay allies ! A youth...cares ; Young, yet enervate ; old, yet never wife } Sloth walks their vigor, and their minds impairs ; Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtlefs eafe, Referring...
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A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, Volume 3

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 360 pages
...hear thy praife ! 'f No——to thy revels let the fool repair: ifTofuch,go fmooththy fpeech;&fpread thy tempting fnare, XX, " Vaft happinefs enjoy thy gay allies! " A youth, of follies -, and old age, of cares: " Young, yet enervate ; old, yet never wife ; " Vice waftes their vigour,...
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The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein ..., Volume 1

Robert Dodsley - Education - 1758 - 606 pages
...Confequences, hy beinp put into the Mouth of Virtue as a Perfon, and addrefs'd to Vice as a Perfon alfo ! Vaft Happinefs. enjoy thy gay Allies ! A Youth of...: Young, yet enervate ; old, yet never wife ; Vice wajles their Vigour, and their Mind impair*. Vain, idle, delicate, in thtugbtltfs Eafe, Referring IVoei...
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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 3

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 376 pages
..." fnare. XX. "Vaft c 15 >: XX, " Vaft happinefs enjoy thy gay allies ! " A youth, of follies ; and old age, of cares: " Young, yet enervate; old, yet never wife; " Vice waftes their vigojar, and their mind impairs. " Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtlefs eafe 4 . " Referving woes for...
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The Way to the Temple of True Honor and Fame by the Paths of ..., Volume 3

William Cooke - Classical biography - 1773 - 232 pages
...didft hear thy praife-/ ' No -to thy revels let the fool repair : ••Tofiich, go fmooth thy fpeech, and fpread thy. tempting fnare.. xx: <: Vaft happinefs...thy gay allies ! *-A youth, of follies; an old age, ofcares-: ' Young, yet enervate ;. old, yet never wife ;: '•Vice waftes their. vigor, and their mind...
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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 3

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1782 - 398 pages
...the fool repair : " To fuch, go fmooth thy fpeech ; and fpread thy tempting " fnare. 3 XX. « Vaft XX. " Vaft happinefs enjoy thy gay allies ! " A youth,...Vice waftes their vigour, and their mind impairs^. _ " Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtlefs eafc " Referving woes for age their prime they fpend ; " All...
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry: Vol. XI.

English poetry - 1790 - 200 pages
...the fool repair : To such, go smooth thy speech; and spread thy tempting snare. XX. " Vast happiness enjoy thy gay allies ! A youth, of follies; an old...age, of cares: Young, yet enervate ; old, yet never wise; Vice wastes their vigor, and their mind impairs. Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtless ease Reserving...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...— to thy revels Hst the fool repair; To fuch go fmooth thy fpccch, and fprcad thy tempting fnarc. waftcs thcirvigour,and theirmind impairs. Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtlefs cafe, Referring woes...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...— to thy revels let the fool repair; To fuch go fmooth thy fpcech ; and fpread thy tempting fnarc. Vaft happinefs enjoy thy gay allies ' A youth of follies, an old age of cares ; Young yet enervate, oM v^.: r-ver wife, Vice waftes their vj,;.. in, and their minds impairs. Vain, idle, delicate, m thi.ughtlcls...
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Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces

William Creech - English literature - 1791 - 318 pages
...my next. I am, &c BELZEBU B. EC LETTER. V. Yaft happinefs enjoy my gay allies ! A youth of folly — an old age of cares !• Young, yet enervate ; — old, yet never wife ; Vice waftes their body, and their mind impairs. SIR, April i, 1785. is the charming characteriftic of the prefent times,...
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