 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
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1889 - 428 sider
...in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed, without be rich no more : — < LVII LIFE THE World 'sa bubble, and the Life of Man Less than a span : In...conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb ; I Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years t With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - 1889 - 460 sider
...the day. Or the flow'ry meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?— Wither. The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span. — Bacon. Great wit is sure to madness close allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide —... | |
 | 1890 - 332 sider
...straight I called unto my mind That it was Christmas Day. SIR FRANCIS BACON, XXV. 1561-1626. LIFE. """pHE World's a bubble ; and the life of man .*• Less...fears. Who then to frail Mortality shall trust But limmes the water, or but writes in dust. Yet, since with sorrow here we live opprest, What life is... | |
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - 1890 - 534 sider
...navi praefectus, qualis in hostem quino per medias remige fertur aquas. HASTINGS CROSSLEV. THE WORLD. 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,... | |
 | Karl August Lentzner - 1890 - 64 sider
...©djöpferê Sßerfa^ren mit feinen ©efc^öbfen. 6ê mag ^ier eine ©teïïe finben. Life a Curse. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span 5 In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb ; Cursed from his cradle and brought up... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 sider
...blaze We lift our heads, a race of other days. Spragiu. Life. I do not set my life at a pin's fee. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span. Bacon. We are such stuff As dreamt are made on : and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. S/iakspere.... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1891 - 120 sider
...in the precincts of profane literature, it justified a freer hand. We give it entire, as follows : " 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1892 - 326 sider
...and all I give ; To Thee I die ; to Thee I only live ! IGNOIO. XXII. THE WORLD.i (By Lord Bacon.) HE world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a...conception wretched, from the womb, So to the tomb ; i " Rel. Wotton." Signed as below in all editions after the first, where it is marked " Ignoto."... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 sider
...a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.—MARCUS AURELIUS : Meditations, ii. 17. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span. LORD BACON : The World. Whose life's a bubble, and in length a span. WILLIAM BROWNE : Britannia's Pastorals,... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 sider
...strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. — MARCUS AURKLIUS : Méditations, ii. 17. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span. LORD BACON: The World. Whose life's a bubble, and in length a span. WILLIAM BROWNS: Britannia's Pastorals,... | |
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