 | 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,... | |
 | 1895 - 768 pàgines
...fancied bliss and heart-felt care, Closing at last in darkness and despair. Cowper, LIFE— continued. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away Coicper, Hope. In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or if found,... | |
 | Robert Hunter - 1895 - 712 pàgines
...amusement, but of no real value ; a trifle. (Shakesp. : 1 Henry VI. , Iv. L) 3. A child's plaything. " Men deal with life as children with their play. Who first misuse, then cast tlieir my* away." Comt>«r: flope, ISA. 4. A matter of no importance ; a trifle. " Is duty a mere spurt,... | |
 | Alexander Francis Chamberlain - 1896 - 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. — Cowper. 27. Men fear death as children to go into the dark. — Bacon. 28. Nature is full of freaks, and now... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pàgines
...time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live. 8. ABRAHAM COWLEY — Martial. Lib. II. XC. Jo t. COWPEH — Hope. L. 127. Oh, that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly... | |
 | 1897 - 184 pàgines
...lips we have loved, darts like red-hot iron into the heart, and scorches it dry with fire. RlCHTER. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. COWPER. The little that is done seems nothing, when we look forward and see how much we have yet to do. GOETHE.... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - 228 pàgines
...Mr. Micawber, which sat lightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit. — CHARLES DICKENS. 4. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. — WILLIAM COWPER. 5. Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence.... | |
 | Charles Frederic Goss - 1900 - 450 pàgines
...back and emitted a series of prolonged and melancholy howls. CHAPTER XXX. OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH "Men deal with life as children with their play, Who...first misuse, then cast their toys away." — Cowper. Bewildered by the scene through which he had just passed, Corson returned to his rooms and spent the... | |
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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. 
