 | 1822 - 588 str.
...emmet, rich in loaded grain, He lives with pleasure, and he dies with pain. PENROSE. An idler's tike a watch that wants both hands, As useless when it goes, as when it stands. Of all bad things with which mankind are curst, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst. The Same.... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 str.
...melancholy truth. — 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 distress'd. The vet'ran steed excus'd his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 str.
...faculties, severe indeed. 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 distress'd. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 str.
...faculties severe indeed. 'Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a graee ; Absence of occupation is not 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 failing strength,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 470 str.
...faculties severe indeed. '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 distress'd. The yet'ran steed, excus'd his task at length, In kind compassion of his (ailing strength,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 str.
...faculties, severe indeed. '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 distress'd. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength,... | |
 | 1825 - 590 str.
...PRINT«. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, CONDUCTED BY A Committee of Civil Engineers and Practical Mechanics. " An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; As useless when it goes as when it stands." No. LXVII. ^Saturday, 9th Aprilt 1825. Price 3d. BRAMAR 'S PRESS, &c. Easl VOL. ra. BHAMAH'S PRESS.... | |
 | Alfred Cecil Buckland - 1825 - 398 str.
...he may devour." If indolence were 'a blessing instead of a curse ; if it were untrue, that " A want of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd ; yet there is no situation in life which can confer upon тлп the privilege of idleness.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 504 str.
...faculties, severe indeed. '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. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength, And turned... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 264 str.
...faculties, severe indeed. 620 '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 distress'd. The vet'ran steed, excus'd his task at length, 625 In kind compassion of his failing strength,... | |
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Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. 
