 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 sidor
...For not to live at Eafe, is not to live : Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying Hour Does fome loofe Remnant of thy Life devour. Live while thou...make us all A Name, a Nothing but an old Wife's Tale. Dryd. Perf. Short Bounds of Life are fet to mortal Man ; 'Tis Virtue's Work alone to ftretch the narrow... | |
 | Juvenal - 1726 - 468 sidor
...For, not to live at cafe, is not to live; Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying Hour Does fome loofe Remnant of thy Life devour. Live, while thou...Death will make us all * A Name, a Nothing but an Old Wire's Tale. Speak ; wilt thou Avarice, or Pleafure, chufc To be thy Lord? Take one, and one rcfufc.... | |
 | Lewis Crusius - 1733 - 362 sidor
...is not to live : Death ilalks behind thee, and each flying hour Does fome loofe remnant of thy time devour. Live while thou liv'ft for death will make...tale. Speak, wilt thou avarice or pleafure chufe? Dryden. J fhall only quote another paffage, which being an imitation of* Horace, the Reader may compire... | |
 | 1744 - 348 sidor
...ftalks behind thee, and each flying Hoof Does fome loofe Remnant of thy Life devour. Live, while :hou liv'ft; for Death will make us all A Name, a Nothing...an Old Wife's Tale. Speak ; wilt thou A<varice or Phafure choofe To be thy Lord ? Take one, and one refuf«. WHEN a Government flourifhes in ConqneSs,... | |
 | Lewis Crusius - 1753 - 388 sidor
...is not to live : Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying hour Does fome loofe remnant of thy time devour. Live while thou liv'ft, for death will make...wife's tale. Speak, wilt thou avarice or pleafure chufe ? Drydtn. I (hall only quote another paflage, which being an imitation of • Horace, the Reader may... | |
 | 1765 - 254 sidor
...not to live at Eafe, is not to.live : Death Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying Hour Does fome loofe Remnant of thy Life devour. Live while thou liv'ft ; for Death will make us all A Name—a Nothing—but an Old Wife's Tale. Thefe Lines, which Dick met with in the Spectator, tranflated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 sidor
...For, not to live at eafe, is not to live ; Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying hour Does fome loofe remnant of thy life devour. Live, while thou...Pleafure, chufe To be thy lord ? Take one, and one refrtfe. But both, by turns, the rule of thee will have ; And thou, betwixt them both, 'wilt be a flave.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1130 sidor
...For, not to live at eafe, is not to live; Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying hour Does fome loofe remnant of thy life devour. Live> while thou...make us all A name, a nothing but an old wife's tale. Spe;ik ; wilt thou Avarice, or Pleafure, chufe To be thy lord ? Take one, and one refuft. But both,... | |
 | 1786 - 694 sidor
...and each flying ' hour « Does fome Inofe remnant of thy life devour. ' Live, while thou liv'ftj fur death will * make us all • A name, a nothing but an old wife's tali. ' Speak: wilt thou Avarice or Pleafure choufe • To be thy lord r Take une, and one icfufc.'... | |
 | 1789 - 508 sidor
...For, not to live at eafe, is not to live. Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying hour Does fume loofe remnant of thy life devour. Live, while thou...Pleafure chufe To be thy Lord ? Take one, and one refufe. When a government flourishes in conquefts, and is fecure from foreign attacks, it naturally falls into... | |
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Does some loose remnant of thy life devour. Live, while thou liv'st; for death will make us all A name, a nothing but an old wife's tale. Speak : wilt thou Avarice or Pleasure choose To be thy lord? Take one, and one refuse. 
