| Francis Quarles - 1806 - 478 Seiten
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory,...day, doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepidage. And what's a life ? The flourishing array Of the proud summer -meadow, which to-day Wears... | |
| Francis Quarles - 1818 - 330 Seiten
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill thy stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepid age. And what's a life? the flourishing array Of the... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 Seiten
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory...day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepid age. And what's a life ? the flourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 Seiten
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory...day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepid age. And what's a life ? the flourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears... | |
| Robert Folkestone Williams - 1847 - 284 Seiten
...other. Master Buzzard came to himself presently, for he was but little hurt, and finding he had been completely baffled, he said never a word. As soon...life? A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth till the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. And what's a life ? The flourishing array... | |
| Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 Seiten
...Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death .'" GRAY. " And what's a life ? — a weary pilgrimage, Whose...the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age :" BYRD. " In the midst of these transports of joy, Murat, with the imperial guards and the corps of... | |
| Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan - 1857 - 414 Seiten
...shift To count my winged hours ; they fly so swift, They scarce deserve the bounteous name of gift. 6 And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill thy stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. 7 And what's a life ? the flourishing array Of... | |
| 1861 - 356 Seiten
...lies, The daw dries up, the star is shot, The flight is past—and man forgot. HENEY KINO. And what is life ? a weary pilgrimage Whose glory in one day doth...fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit ago. QUARLES. Our life's a clock, and every gasp of death Breathes forth a warning grief, 'till Tune... | |
| Francis Quarles - 1861 - 346 Seiten
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill thy stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. And what's a life ? the flourishing array Of the... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 Seiten
...lamented ; I have a sea of tears that must be vented ; O spare till then : and then I die contented. And what's a life? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory,...day, doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepid age. And what's a life l The flourishing array Of the proud summer meadow, which to-day Wears... | |
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