 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pàgines
...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 awiy ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. 130 When God aud... | |
 | August Tholuck - 1854 - 248 pàgines
...likewise occurs in a good sense. its own vigorous pinions. Yet how many treat science as they treat life : " Men deal with life, as children with their...first misuse, then cast their toys away." COWPER. And it is this misuse of science which so disgusts me in that shallow school of theologians. They lack... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 476 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. When God and man stand... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pàgines
...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 ; Lire to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. TIJO When God and man... | |
 | Friedrich August Gottgetreu THOLUCK - 1855 - 198 pàgines
...steps to heaven, only faith- flies thither. Yet how many make of knowledge the same use they do of life. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. And it is just this misuse of knowledge which makes that shallow school of theologians especially repulsive... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pàgines
...shadowy, no dream ; Ita 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, Henry Stebbing - 1856 - 430 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. When God and man stand... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pàgines
...this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. POPE.— Essay on Man, "Epistle I. Line 8. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. COWPER. — Hope, Line 127. To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. CAMPRELL. — Hallowed Ground,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1863 - 96 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. When God and man stand... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pàgines
...flowers, and the sunshine, as gifts for passing enjoyment, having no more important value, is " To deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away." The next poem on "Charity," or "Love," — (for, as. the writer says " GOD working ever on a social... | |
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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. 
