 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 Seiten
...blow. " OUR LIFE IS EVEN AS A VAPOUR! WHICH APPEARETH FOR A LITTLE WHILE, AND THEN VAMSHKTH AWAY." LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew ; Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubble which on water stood, E'en such is man, whose borrow'd light... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 Seiten
...666, 734.] 970. VANITY OF HUMAN LIFE. Burke. What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue ! King. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : Ev'n such is man, whose borrow'd light... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...thing. Chapman. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Pope. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood; Ev'n such is man, whose borrow'd light... | |
 | 1846 - 444 Seiten
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 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...there, Prolong my winter all the year, And thy example others make lu lore with sorrow for thy sake. Sic Vita. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are j Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew ; Or like a wind that chafes... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 604 Seiten
...hopes and varied fears ; The scene shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but death. SIC VITA. LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flight of eagles are, Or like the fresh Spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 Seiten
...translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies. JOUN MILTON, 1608-1674. LIFE. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...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 borrow'd... | |
 | 1854 - 268 Seiten
...from her native east, To journey through the airy gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud. MILTON. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...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 borrow'd light... | |
 | 1854 - 456 Seiten
...keen, shoots into azure far, And, always dwelling nigh, is the remotest star. LIFE. — Henry King. LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 Seiten
...thus moralises on the life of man, in a set of similes, as apposite as they are light and elegant : " Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of mornin» dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : E'en such is... | |
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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... 
