| William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pągines
...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. When God and man stand... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pągines
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value what no thought can ascertain, 125 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... | |
| 1844 - 858 pągines
...whether it is in VOL. in. 2 D comparing the present with the past, from a consciousness of having ' Dealt with life, as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away,' that we do not derive the same pleasure from what passes before us in maturer age ; or whether, in... | |
| William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pągines
...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. When God and man stand... | |
| 1878 - 496 pągines
...in their sins, 'Tis in the Church the leprosy hegins." "The cup That cheers, but not inebriates." " Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away." " For opposition gives opinion strength." " There is in souls a sympathy with sounds." " Knowledge... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pągines
...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. When God and man stand... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pągines
...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. When God and man stand... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pągines
...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. When God and man stand... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pągines
...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. When God and man stand... | |
| William Cowper - 1853 - 800 pągines
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value what no thought can ascertain, 125 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... | |
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