 Men are but children of a larger growth ; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; But, like a mole in earth, busy...  The Busy Body: A Comedy - Seite 64von Susanna Centlivre - 1797 - 112 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 Seiten
...Jill for Love.) Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain; And yet...blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view. ON MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England... | |
 | 1859 - 824 Seiten
...45(5 457 Dol Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, A nd full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the...blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view : thus I discover'd, And blamed the love of ruined Antony ; Yet wish that... | |
 | 1859 - 838 Seiten
...growth, Our appetite« as apt to change as them, Л IK i full as craving too, and full as vain ; And vet ht in kings and common men, Reprove me daily ! —...of aught, Be it to have been Heaven's happy instr Mind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view : thus I discover'd, And... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...appetites as apt to change as theirs, MAN. And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet tho soul shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad,...blind. Works all her folly up, and casts it outward, To the world's open view. Drydex. MAN— The Happy. Ho is the happy man. whose life e'en now Shows... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 Seiten
...Montgomery. MAN. AT EN are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet...blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view. Drydcn. is no species of humour in which the English more excel than that... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 Seiten
...passed away. POPE. Men are but children of a larger growth ; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain : And yet...blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view. — DKYDEN. Man is the sun of home, He shines — and all is bright ! MAN... | |
 | 1868 - 690 Seiten
...familiar : — " Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too and full as vain ; And yet...earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up and easts it outward In the world's open view." f The image is mixed and even contradictory, but the thought... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 Seiten
...ends ! Young. MAN. Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark loom, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, Works... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 Seiten
...familiar: — " Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too and full as vain ; And yet...blind, Works all her folly up and casts it outward In the world's open view."1 The image is mixed and even contradictory, but the thought obtains grace... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 Seiten
...familiar : — " Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too and full as vain ; And yet...blind, Works all her folly up and casts it outward In the world's open view." J The image is mixed and even contradictory, but the thought obtains grace... | |
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