 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...hand ; whieh, as it gains Extent, and aetive length, the more it pains. Sir W. Davennnfs Just Italian Like to the falling of a star ; Or as the flights...silver drops of morning dew ; Or like a wind that ehafes the flood, Or bubbles whieh on water stood ; Ev'n sueh is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...all heaven's harmonies. JOHN MILTON, 160S-1674. LIFE. Like to the falling of a star. Or as the nights of eagles are. Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue....morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or hubbies which on water stood — Even such is man. whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in. and... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1907 - 892 pages
...myself a Man — Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing. 452. The Life of Man Sir y. Davies T IKE to the falling of a star, •^—' Or as the flights...spring's gaudy hue,. Or silver drops of morning dew, 482 Or like the wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is Man, whose... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...The searching sun, the open sky, She never could endure. J. KEBLE (The Christian Year). 546. SIC VITA LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...bubbles which on water stood : Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1910 - 1174 pages
...birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584-1616) ON THE LIFE OF MAN look upon your lord, And lay your hands upon your...sword, — I tell thee, thou 'rt defied ! And if thou borrowed light Is straight called in and paid to night : The wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 220 pages
...approve ; And all my sour-sweet days I will lament, and love. George Herbert CXXL ON THE LIFE OF MAN. LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...bubbles which on water stood : Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring... | |
 | P. Garrett - American literature - 1910 - 872 pages
...again I My own dear Papa 1" SIC VITA.— HENRY KINO. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the nights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue,...morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, ( >r bubbles which on water stood, — E'en such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1911 - 642 pages
...endure. J. KEBLE (The Christian Year). 546. SIC VITA LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the nights of eagles are,— Or like the fresh spring's gaudy...bubbles which on water stood : Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The... | |
 | English poetry - 1911 - 784 pages
...Thus great Pan is ever sung'! jfrancis Beaumont 1586(?)-1616 ON THE LIFE OF MAN (From Poems, 1640) Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like the wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light... | |
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Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight... 
