 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...  The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]. - Sida 268redigerad av Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 sidor
...gloomy valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. THE LIFE OF MAN. Like to the fulling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like...chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : K'en such is man, whose borrow *d light I? straight call'd in and paid to-night: The wind blows out,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 622 sidor
...and with fire." Amen and Amen. JOSEPH BUKGESS. POETRY. ON LIFE. LIKE to the falling of a star, Or ae the flights of eagles are ; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops uf morning dew ; Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood— Even such... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 sidor
...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...chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood, — Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to-night. The wind blows... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 sidor
...hand ; whieh, as it gains Extent, and aetive length, the more it pains. Sir W. Davennnfs Just Italian Like to the falling of a star ; Or as the flights...silver drops of morning dew ; Or like a wind that ehafes the flood, Or bubbles whieh on water stood ; Ev'n sueh is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 sidor
...all heaven's harmonies. JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674. LIFE. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the nights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue,...chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night, The wind blows... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 sidor
...all heaven's harmonies. JOHN MILTON, 160S-1674. LIFE. Like to the falling of a star. Or as the nights of eagles are. Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue....morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or hubbies which on water stood — Even such is man. whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in. and... | |
 | 1855 - 458 sidor
...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 eagles are, Or V.ke the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood,... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 sidor
...then, O Heaven! 't had been my bliss; But bless me now, and take me soon from this. Drummond. sic VITA. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood: Ev'n such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out,... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 sidor
...not the greatest man in the world, that man is Lord Brougham. 4. THIS LIFE. — Henry King, d. 1669. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...chafes the flood ; Or bubbles which on water stood ; Even such is man, whose borrowed light, Is straight called in, and paid to-night. The wind blows... | |
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