 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pàgines
...breath ; The utmost limit of a narrow span, And end of motion, which with life began. As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment,...next expires ; As empty clouds by rising winds are tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost ; So vanishes our state, so pass our days;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pàgines
...narrow span, And end of motion, which with life began. As smoke that rises from the kindling lires Is seen this moment, and the next expires; As empty clouds by rising winds are tust, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost ; So vanishes our state, so pass onr flays;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 466 pàgines
...breath ? The utmost limit of a narrow span, An end of motion, which with life began ? As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment,...next expires; As empty clouds by rising winds are tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost, So vanishes our state, so pass our days,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pàgines
...And end of motion, which widi life began. As smoke diat rises from die kindling fires Is seen diis tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found dian lutt ; So vanishes our state, so pass our days... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 364 pàgines
...breath , The utmost limit of a narrow span, • And end of motion, which with life began. As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment,...next expires ; As empty clouds by rising winds are tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost ; So vanishes our state, so pass our days... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pàgines
...breath ? The utmost limit of a narrow span, And end of motion, which with life began ? As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment,...toss'd, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost ; So vanishes our state, so pass our days, So life but opens now, and now decays ; The cradle... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1835 - 364 pàgines
...Jiafe in the grave, and free among the dead. And end of motion which with life began, As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment,...next expires : As empty clouds by rising winds are tost. Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost: So vanishes our state, so pass our days:... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pàgines
...narrow span, And end of motion, which with life began. ks smoke that rises from the kindling firee в ) ) ) ) tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost So vanishes our state, so pass our days ;... | |
 | James Caughey - 1845 - 336 pàgines
...place. What Prior said of smoke in general, seldom applies to that of Leeds : — " The smoke that rises from the kindling fires, Is seen this moment, and the next expires." Sometimes, however, the sentiment of another poet is happily realized : — " The noisy breeze with... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pàgines
...interrupted breath? The utmost limit of a narrow span, And end of motion which with life began? As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment,...next expires: As empty clouds by rising winds are tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost : So vanishes our state, so pass our days,... | |
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As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment, and the next expires: As empty clouds by rising winds are tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost : So vanishes our state, so pass our days, So life but opens now, and now... 
