 The world's a bubble and the Life of Man Less than a span In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but...  Poems - Sayfa 78Sir Henry Wotton tarafından - 1815 - 136 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 438 sayfa
...of Man Less than a span : In his conception wretched — from the womb So to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and...shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust. THE LIFE OF MAN 271 Yet whilst with sorrow here we live opprest, What life is best ? Courts are but... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 sayfa
...life of Man Less than a span ; In his conception wretched ; from the womb So to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and...dust. Yet, whilst with sorrow here we live opprest, What life is best ? Courts are but only superficial schools To dandle fools ; The rural parts are turn'd... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 sayfa
...Life of Man less than a span : In hia conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb ; Curst from r the f the water, or but writes in dust. j. BACON— Life. Preface to the Translation of Certain Psalms. It... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1897 - 356 sayfa
...Bell." Petrarch has given us the finest hymn and the most wretched sonnet in the world. Cursed from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and...Who, then, to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. " Yet whilst with sorrow here we live oppressed, What life is best... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 550 sayfa
...life of man less than a span; In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb: Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears....Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Yet since with sorrow here we live opprest, what life is best ? Courts... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 384 sayfa
...life of man Less than a span; In his conception wretched, from the womb, So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and...writes in dust. Yet, whilst with sorrow here we live oppressed, What life is best? Courts are but only superficial schools, To dandle fools; The rural part... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 350 sayfa
...man •*• Less than a span; In his conception wretched, from the womb, So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and...writes in dust. Yet, whilst with sorrow here we live oppressed, What life is best? Courts are but only superficial schools, To dandle fools; The rural part... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 340 sayfa
...of Man Less than a span! In his conception, wretched; from the womb, So to the tomb! Curst, from the cradle; and brought up to years, With cares and fears!...Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water; or but writes in dust! Yet since, with sorrow here we live opprest; What life is best? Courts... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 370 sayfa
...life of man Less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and...trust, But limns on water, or but writes in dust." Shakespeare's Hamlet expresses himself in a similar strain : — " How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1900 - 368 sayfa
...life of man Less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and...trust, But limns on water, or but writes in dust." Shakespeare's Hamlet expresses himself in a similar strain : — " How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable... | |
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