 For when the mind's experience comes at length, It comes to mourn the body's loss of strength : Resign'd to ignorance all our better days, Knowledge just ripens when the man decays; One ray of light the closing eye receives, And wisdom only takes what...  The British Essayists: The Looker-on - Seite 134von Alexander Chalmers - 1802Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Cumberland - 1786 - 352 Seiten
...OLD AGE. " Age is the heavieft burthen man can bear, " Compound of difappointment, pain and care; " For when the mind's experience comes at length, " It comes to mourn the body's lofs of ftrength: *' Refign'd to ignorance all our better days, " Knowledge juft ripens when. the man... | |
 | Maria Riddell - 1802 - 484 Seiten
...THE GEEEK. Ao E is the heaviest burthen man can bear, Compound of disappointment, pain, and care ; For when the mind's experience comes at length, It...receives, And wisdom only takes what folly leaves. FROM ,THE GREEK. , foolish painter, give those wings to Love ? Love is not light, as my sad heart can... | |
 | Maria Woodley Riddell - 1802 - 248 Seiten
...FROM THE GREEK. AGE is the heaviest burthen man can bear, Compound of disappointment, pain, and care ; For when the mind's experience comes at length/ It...days, Knowledge just ripens when the man decays ; One raj. of light the closing eye receives, And wisdom only takes what folly leaves. FROM THE GREEK. WHY,... | |
 | 1813 - 1102 Seiten
...same Subject. ' Age is the heaviest burthen man can bear, Compound of disappointment, pain and care ; For when the mind's experience comes at length, It...better days. Knowledge just ripens when the man decays: And wisdom only takes what folly leaves.'—p. 226. We now turn to the book which has given rise to... | |
 | 1814 - 378 Seiten
...same Subject. Age \& the heaviest burden man can bear, Compound of disappointment, pain, and care ; For when the mind's experience comes at length, It...receives, And wisdom only takes what folly leaves. Love not extinguished by Age. For me thy wrinkles have more charms, Dear Lydia, than a smoother face... | |
 | 1814 - 556 Seiten
...same Subject. " Age is the heaviest burden man can bear, Compound of disappointment, pain, and care; For when the mind's experience comes at length, It comes to mourn the body's loss of strength ; Besign'd to ignorance all our better days, Knowledge just ripens when the man decays: One ray of... | |
 | 1822 - 640 Seiten
...Pherecrates :— " Age is the heaviest burthen man can bear, Compound of disappointment, pain, and care ; For when the mind's experience comes at length, It...ripens when the man decays ; One ray of light the closit;; eye receives, And wisdom only takes what folly leaves." CUMBERLAND. As a class of composition... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 Seiten
...Pherecrates:— " Age is the heaviest burthen man can bear, Compound of disappointment, pain, and care ; For when the mind's experience comes at length, It...Knowledge just ripens when the man decays ; One ray of fight the closing eye receives, And wisdom only takes what folly leaves." CUMBERLAND. As a class of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 Seiten
...Pherecrates:— " Age is the heaviest burthen man can bear, Compound of disappointment, pain, and care ; For when the mind's experience comes at length, It...Knowledge just ripens when the man decays ; One ray of fight the closing eye receives, And wisdom only takes what folly leaves." CUMBERLAND. As a class of... | |
 | 1822 - 654 Seiten
...body's loss of strength ; llesign'd to ignorance all our better days, Knowledge just ripens т/hen the man decays ; One ray of light the closing eye...receives, And wisdom only takes what folly leaves." CUMBERLAND. As a class of composition the Greek epigram has no counterpart in the literature of any... | |
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