 tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour, For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their " midnight taper," To...  The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on ... - Pàgina 28per Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 907 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pàgines
...uncertain paper:/ Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour : 891 To have, when the original is dust, [taper.' A_name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. CCXIX. What... | |
 | 1895 - 768 pàgines
...uncertain paper ; Some liken it to climbing up a hill, "Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour ; For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,...taper, To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. Ib D. «/. i. ^loFAME— continued. 'Tis as a snowball, which derives... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pàgines
...uncertain paper : Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour : ies. De Sha > 1 a wretched picture, and worse bust. k. BYRON— Don Juan. Canto I. St. 218. Who hath not owned, with... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pàgines
...summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And hards burn what they call their " midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. BYRON. The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 652 pàgines
...see, too, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, by Robert Greene, ed. Rev. Alexander Dyce, 1861, pp. 153-181.] For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,...taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture and worse bust.'- 1 ccx1x. What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 pàgines
...uncertain paper : Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapor : For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,...taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. Don Juan, Canto I. LORD BYRON. Her house is all of Echo made Where... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pàgines
...uncertain paper : uiie liken it to climbing up a hill Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapor ; >r NGEL DEATH ! l&lj.'. September 23, ISO'.'. THE PAINS...OF SLEEP EKE on my bed my limlw I lay, It hath no o have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. Canto I. September,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pàgines
...uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour; 1740 a wretched picture, and worse bust. ccxix What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pàgines
...paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour ; 1 740 For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,...taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. CCXIX What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pàgines
...uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour; 1740 like blood, the earth a tomb, The tomb a hell, and...thy wide and grass-grown streets, Whose symmetry was a wretched picture, and worse bust. CCXIX What are the hopes of man ? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected... | |
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