The world's a bubble and the Life of Man Less than a span In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but... Literary and professional works - Side 117af Francis Bacon - 1864Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Amelie Deventer von Kunow - 1924 - 144 sider
...to our consideration of the dramas of the "Concealed Poet," Francis Tudor, named Viscount St. Alban. The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span; In his conception wretched from the woombe, So to the tombe, Curst from the cradel, and brought up to years, With cares and fears. Who... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 sider
...and fear, Saying, — JIan is distant, but God Is near ! THOMAS I'KINGLH. THE WORLD. THE World 'sa bubble, and the Life of Man Less than a span : In...wretched, from the womb, So to the, tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust,... | |
| Norman Ault - 1928 - 566 sider
...in keeping, My cries and weeping. Anon. T. Morley's Canzonets, 1597. The Life of Man THE world 'sa bubble, and the life of man Less than a span : In...wretched, from the womb So to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust,... | |
| 1908 - 856 sider
...more boldly and concisely. He forsakes simile for metaphor, leaving the word like to be understood. The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man Less than a span. . . . Were Tony to try and express himself by the same means, he would say: "The world's a bubble,... | |
| 1909 - 1132 sider
...no approach here to anything but the poetising of an idea. The three best stanzas run aa follows : The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than...the tomb ; Curst from the cradle, and brought up to yean with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes... | |
| John Aubrey - 1982 - 340 sider
...On the Thames small boats rowed by watermen were one of the chief means of transport in London. Ed. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than...conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Cursed from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall... | |
| Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington - 1987 - 160 sider
...Further reference to the rival theories is made on p. 86. Chapter III FEATURES OF THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span. Francis Bacon /\. SPHERICAL world, closed but continually expanding, is a new playground for thought.... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...For FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626) The Life of Man 1 The world 'sa bubble, and the life of man Less then his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. (1. 1 —6) 2 What life is best? Courts are... | |
| Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 sider
...describe him as 'a good poet, but concealed'.92 Who can tell what was lost? The few verses that survive (The world's a bubble and the life of man / Less than a span . . .') do not resound with all the harmonics we perceive in great poetry, yet they evoke some very... | |
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