 Thus death reigns in all the portions of our time. The autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles...  Wild flowers of the year [by A. Pratt]. - Pàgina 158per Anne Pratt - 1799 - 284 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 pàgines
...in village churchyards. Jeremy Taylor, when commenting on mortality, says, referring to this custom: "The Summer gives green turf and Brambles to bind upon our graves." - The Moat of Moybolgue, in the County of Cavan, is a sacred place in Ireland, where St. Patrick ministered.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1885 - 66 pàgines
...for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death;... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1885 - 102 pàgines
...for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon onr graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues are the four quarters of the year, and all minister... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pàgines
...for us, and the winters cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the \ ear ; and vou can go no whither... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 584 pàgines
...the winter's cold turns them inio sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our henrse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calenlun-s and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death... | |
 | 1893 - 554 pàgines
...for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death."... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pàgines
...for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the j four quarters of the year, and all minister to death... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pàgines
...for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon a broken table from the furies of a shipwreck, as he was... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 pàgines
...for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year; and you can go no whither,... | |
 | 1922 - 550 pàgines
...for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves." Vicious men, he then submits, are like "ripe and pleasant fruit falling from a fair tree, and gathered... | |
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