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
| 1888 - 746 Seiten
...Gedicht, welches aus dem Griechischen frei übertragen ist. Es ist also auch kein Originalgedicht. Life.i) The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span; In his conceptioD wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from the cradle, and brought up to... | |
| K. L. Armstrong - 1889 - 460 Seiten
...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 —... | |
| Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Karl August Lentzner - 1890 - 64 Seiten
...©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... | |
| 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,... | |
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