...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his usual tricks : " The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, " Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white...

...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his usual tricks : " The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, " Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white...

...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his usual tricks : " The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, " Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white...

...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his usual tricks : " The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, " Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white...

...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his usual tricks : " The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, " Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white;...

...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his usual tricks : " The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, " Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white...

...half advancing, half retreating, kept At his old distance, and the business slept. Six years had past, idings came; Their guilt, their flight -was told aloud, And Envy The locks once comely in a virgin's sight. Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white; The...

...of time upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : '"Six years had pass'd, and forty fire the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks...now felt th' encroaching white; • Gradual each day 1 liked my horses less, My dinner more — I learnt to play at chess.' " ' That's very good !' cried...

...discontent, doing no duty myself, nor listening to another ; and I hope my uneasiness proceeded not merely to be the inroads of time upon beauty, the writer...Gradual each day I liked my horses less, My dinner more — I learnt to play at chess.' 'That's very good!' cried the bard; 'whose is it?" — ' Your...

...habit. We had a dinner social and pleasant, if the hours before it had been rightly spent : but I would My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt the encroaching white ; Gradual each day I liked my horses less, My dinner more — I learnt to play...