 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 267af Francis Bacon - 1861Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Charles de Rémusat - 1858 - 496 sider
...qu'il cachait son talent pour les vers, et cite comme fort jolie une pièce de vers qui commence ainsi: The world's a bubble and the. life of man Less than a span, etc. (Uva, t. M, pari. I, p. 223.) femme, acheta une poule, et disposa tout pour faire sur place l'expérience... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1861 - 314 sider
...prophecied the air, and the embryo eye, the light. Without Immortality, well did Lord Bacon say, " The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than...Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years, With care and fears; — Who, then, to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 sider
...death, that feeds on men, And death once dead, there's no more dying then. W. Shakespeare LVII LIFE The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man Less than...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,... | |
 | 1863 - 438 sider
...feeds on men, And death once dead, there 's no more dying then. W. Shakespeare LVII LIFE 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,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 sider
...sure it is Time's Lord can more perform. J. HAGTHORPE *"PHE World's a bubble, and the life of Man JL 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... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1867 - 256 sider
...prophesied the air, and the embryo eye the light. Without immortality, well did Lord Bacon say, — " The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than...Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years With care and fears ; — Who, then, to frail mortality shall trust, But limits the water, or but writes... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 sider
...if wild beasts and men did seek 35 To like, to love, to choose alike. Sir Walter Raleigh. IV LIFE. The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man Less than...wretched; from the womb So to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years 5 With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust,... | |
 | E. Wadham - 1869 - 176 sider
...again ; And both in one have brought us hither, That we may know our whence and whither. FT PALGEATE. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than...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 moi-tality shall trust,... | |
 | 1869 - 436 sider
...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, Hat limns on water, or but writes in dust. Vet whilst with sorrow here we live opprest, What life is... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 sider
...attention, coming from a man of such mature experience and thought, seldom expressing himself in verse.] '"THE World's a bubble, and the Life of Man •*•...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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