| Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 páginas
...Shakspcare, vol 10 Vanity of wishing for old Jlge. Enlarge my life with multitude of days : In health and sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself...shuns to know That life protracted— is protracted vro. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : In vain their gifts... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 páginas
...doom, His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, — In health,...shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : 260 In vain their gifts... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 páginas
...he fed. Blaeked Dying Hone " Enlarge my life with multitude of days !" — In health, in siekness, thus the suppliant prays : Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protraeted, is protraeted woe. Dr. Johnson' s Vanity of Human Withet. In life's last seene what prodigies... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 páginas
...doom, His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame, x^And steals to death from anguish and from shame. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, — In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant praySj .^, [Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know iT-hat life protracted is protracted woe.... | |
| 1856 - 754 páginas
...Never, never to return ! SAMUEL JOHNSON. Born 1709. + 1784. Extracts from the Vanity of human Wishes. "Enlarge my life with multitude of days !" In health,...shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...Line 221. He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 257. Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. * The Universal Love of Pleasure, line 1: — u All human rare, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 páginas
...DAYS NOT ALWAYS DESIRABLE. (From the same.) Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, and sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself...shuns to know That life protracted, is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...Page 264 ; and see ROGEES' Italy, the Campagna of Florence, Page 116, Edition'lS3O. DA YS. — Eularge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness,...shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. DR. JOHNSON. — -Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 255. DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM.—Ol the dead be nothing... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...Line 159. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 221. Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Line 257. Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. Line 308. From Marlborough's eyes the tears of... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. Ib. VHW 315. Enlarge my life with multitude of days In health,...shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Ib. Van. HW 255. The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground : 'Twas therefore... | |
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