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" 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 117
af Francis Bacon - 1864
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Francis Bacon, Last of the Tudors

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...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Bind 1

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,...
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Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts

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,...
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Scribner's Magazine, Bind 56

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1914 - 846 sider
...found himself wondering how any being of ordinary intelligence could think that the same hand wrote, "The World's a bubble, and the life of Man Less than a span"; and then, "Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings." Or if there be a faint doubt about "The World,"...
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The Living Age, Bind 259

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,...
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The Twentieth Century, Bind 66

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...
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Brief Lives

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...
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The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900-1931

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....
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

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...
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Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination

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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