 | 1902 - 424 pàgines
...sweetness. How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one in all! CAMPBELL. ALICE GARY. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who...first misuse, then- cast their toys away. COWPER. Lord, in my views let both united be; I live in pleasure when I live to Thee. Man's life is like unto... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 948 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pàgines
...fancied bliss and heartfelt care, Closing at last in darkness and despair." 2727 Cowper: Hop''. Lino 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,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pàgines
...Death of Mr. Crashaw. L. 56. 11 Life is an incurable disease. ABRAHAM COWLEY — To Dr. Scarborough. u TENNYSON — In Memoriam. Canto 64. 21 When I was...born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the ear Hope. L. 127. StiU ending, and beginning still. COWPER— Task. Bk. III. L. 627. 14 What is it but... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 492 pàgines
...never come back to me.4 Taking at random one final example of later date, we find Cowper writing : Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.* Such plain didactic stuff seems, at first sight, far removed from lyric, until we remember how Patmore... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 pàgines
...never come back to me.4 Taking at random one final example of later date, we find Cowper writing : Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.6 1 The Deserted Village. • Goody Blake and Harry Gill (Lyrical Ballads). * Ibid. 4 Break, break,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...chance. Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. 2610 'Hope' uliet is the sun. 10473 Romeo and Juliet O Romeo. Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? 10474 Rome 261 1 'Hope' And differing judgements serve but to declare That truth lies somewhere, if we knew but... | |
 | 2003 - 1282 pàgines
...misapply. 2 to treat badly; abuse; mistreat: He misuses his horses by giving them loads that are too heavy. Men deal with life as children with their play. Who first misuse, then cast their toys away (William Cowper). SYN: maltreat, ill-treat. л 1 a wrong or improper use; misapplication: / notice... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pàgines
...belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else. ~ Baltasar Gracian y Morales, 1601-1685 ~ Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. ~ Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 ~ Games lubricate the body and the mind. ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790... | |
 | 1836 - 1048 pàgines
...! that men would always pursue science in thy way ! O that they would not use it as a mongolfiere, in which man, when he has made it, seats himself with...Virtute c. 10. This is one of the few passages, in which tamivog means lowly and not low, contemptible. Plutarch seems to have borrowed the expression from... | |
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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. 
