 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...  The Living Age - Seite 2871908Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - 1890 - 534 Seiten
...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 a span ; In his conception wretched, from the womb, So to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up... | |
 | 1890 - 332 Seiten
...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 than a span : In his conception wretched ; from the womb, So to the tomb : Curst from the cradle, and brought up... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1891 - 120 Seiten
...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 a span; In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Cursed from his cradle and brought up to... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1892 - 882 Seiten
...which is due chiefly to the metrical arrangement, and has something very pathetic in it to my ear. 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 the cradle, and brought up... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1892 - 326 Seiten
...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 span ; In his conception wretched, from the womb, So to the tomb ; i " Rel. Wotton." Signed as below in... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 Seiten
...world, which took but six days to make, is like to take six thousand to make out. Sir Thomas ßttnvne, e come to co Ласоп. N The world's a room of sickness, where each heart / Knows its own anguish and unrest 1... | |
 | William Edward Mead - 1894 - 298 Seiten
...those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang." 4 "The world's a bubble, and the life of man •\ Less than a span." 0 " Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye. Kissing... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 Seiten
...we panting die. 10 FRANCIS BACON, from Reliquiae Wottonianae, 1651 ; written about 1625. THE WORLD. 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 ; Cursed from his cradle, and brought up... | |
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