 | Edward Young - 1839 - 300 sidor
...scarce in human wisdom to do more. All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through ev'ry stage: when young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly...purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought J Itesolves, and re-resolves; then dies the samo. And why? because he thinks himself immortal. All... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 276 sidor
...And scarce in human wisdom to do more. All promise is poor dilatory man ; And that thro' ev'ry stage. When young, indeed, In full content, we sometimes...forty, and reforms his plan , At fifty, chides his inf imous delay ; Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves,... | |
 | 1840 - 494 sidor
...acquiring. Never, perhaps, was it easier to find the verification of Young's sarcastic lines — " When young indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves ; and only wish, A* duteous sons, our fathers were more wise." In yonn£ children, however, we are inclined to look... | |
 | 1842 - 144 sidor
...that their hopes for eternity ! 1 All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage : when young, indeed, In full content, we sometimes...were more wise ; At thirty, man suspects himself a tool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At ftfty. chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent... | |
 | JOHN FORBES, EDITOR - 1842 - 632 sidor
...break through them. What has been said in л moral sense is equally applicable in a dielet^ one : " At thirty man suspects himself a fool— Knows it...reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Resolves, and re-resolves, and dies the same." The candle cannot be burned at both ends without double-quick... | |
 | Thomas Brothers - 1842 - 158 sidor
...always effectual where any thing can be so ; reason takes her seat in man at a late period of life. " At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plans." We rarely find a man of forty, that possesses any thing but a sensual, or untoward disposition,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sidor
...full content we sometimes nobly rest, IU nana ions for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, pur it been R . Poshes bis prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought ¡' ReeoJres, and re-resolves;... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 636 sidor
...And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest,Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty a man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous... | |
 | Hottingen, Lesezirkel, Stiftung von Schnyder von Wartensee - 1900 - 448 sidor
...I, 412— 417, 421. - - When young, indeed, In füll content we, sometimes, nobly rest, Unanxious of ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers...himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. Noah VI. 626 — 627- Aber was würdigers bleibt von... | |
 | Hottingen, Lesezirkel, Stiftung von Schnyder von Wartensee - 1900 - 470 sidor
...we, sometimes, nobly rest, Unanxious of ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers \vere more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan — — Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. Noah VI, 626—627- Aber was würdigers bleibt... | |
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Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan... 
