 ... 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...  Scott's Monthly Magazine - Seite 7241868Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 Seiten
...to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring intomb'd in autumn lies, The dew's dried up, the star is shot, The flight is past — and man forgot. WILLIAM DRUMMOND, Of Hawthornden, son to Sir John Drumraond, was born in 1585 ; educated at the High... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 Seiten
...Is strait call'd in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out ; the bubble, dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up ; the. star is shot : The flight is past, and man forgot. Dr. King's Poems, p. 139. * Yet (now, what busy path soe'er you tread To greatness, you must sleep... | |
 | 1842 - 612 Seiten
...stood: — E'en such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in and paid to-night: — The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The Spring entombed in Autumn lies; The dew's dried up, the star is shot, The flight is past, and man forgot. EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE.... | |
 | 1839 - 894 Seiten
...stood — F.'en such is man, whose borrowed light li straight called in and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring entombed in autumn lies, The dew's dried up, the star ia shot, The flight is past, — and man forgot." These lines seem to have... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 Seiten
...night : — The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The spring intomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew's dried up, the star is shot, The flight is past, and man forgot." " The silver foam which the wind severs from the parted wave" is not more light or sparkling than this... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 Seiten
...night : — The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The spring intonib'd in autumn lies ; The dew's dried up, the star is shot, The flight is past, and man forgot." " The silver foam which the wind severs from the parted wave" is not more light or sparkling than this... | |
 | Tobias Merton - 1824 - 488 Seiten
...Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the babble dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot ; The flight is past, and man forgot. DR. KINO. Dr. Henry King was born 1591, and died 1669; he was chaplain to James I. and Bishop of Chichester.... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 Seiten
...Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night. The wind blows oat, the bubble dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot. DR. KINO. Dr. Henry King was born 1591, and died 1669 ; he was chaplain to James I. and Bishop of Chichester.... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1825 - 556 Seiten
...light Is strait called in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out; the buWe dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot." Dr. King's Poems, I>. 139, ut ?a;>.a. See Bishop Taylor's Works, vol. ip 335, was his own, by our owu... | |
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