 | William Cowper - 1879 - 554 pàgines
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 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pàgines
...bliss and heart-felt care, Closing at last in darkness and despair. Coicper, Hopt, LIFE — continued. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away Coioper, llcpe. In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or if found,... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pàgines
...give, None ever yet made haste enough to live. v. COWLEY — Imitations. Martial. Lib. H. Ep. LXL. w. Co\\pER—Hope. Line 127. Our wasted oil unprofitably burns. Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pàgines
...give, None ever yet made haste enough to live. V. COWLEY — Imitations. Martial. Lib. П. Ep. LXLMen deal with life as children with their play. Who first misuse, then cast their toys away, to. COWPEB— Hope. Line 127. Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pàgines
...fancied bliss and heartfelt care, Closing at last in darkness and despair." 2727 Cowper: Hope, tine 1 Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. 2728 Cowper: Hope. Line 127 In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pàgines
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value, what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. 130 When God and man... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pàgines
...religious hope, we must prepare for It by early and continuous religious habit. Shuttleworth. DEALING WITH. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, and then cast their toys away. Cowper, DECLINE OP. This tide of man's life after it once tnrneth and... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pàgines
...stupefied with ignorance (viz., of the substantial identity of things). .Eastern saying, quoted by Emerson. , Cffwftr. Men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies... | |
 | Alexander Francis Chamberlain - 1895 - 482 pàgines
...Dryden. 25. Men are unwiser than children ; they do not know the hand that feeds them. — Carlyle. 26. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. — Coicper. 27. Men fear death as children to go into the dark. — Bacon. 28. Nature is full of freaks,... | |
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Men deal with life, as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. 
