 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855
...life ii short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to...what will fame be to an ephemera •who no longer exist* 1 And what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 552 Seiten
...life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame 1« to an ephemera who no longer exists ? And what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour,... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 480 Seiten
...life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature...But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? And what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859
...life is short ! My friends would comfort me -with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glorv. But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists" ? And what will become of all history... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 231 Seiten
...life is short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to...But what will fame be to an ephemera, who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866
...life is short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature...But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? And what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866
...life is short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But whet will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exist»? And what will become of all history in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875
...and life is short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature...But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875
...life is short I My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature...But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885
...life is short. " My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name they say I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to...But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
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... of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and consequently as wretched : and in philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long, and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall... 
