 Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves, for rapine; as the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station...  The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality.. - Página 73de Edward Young - 1750 - 404 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 326 páginas
...for triumph's of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or foar in fame ? Earth's higheft ftation ends in, ' Here he lies :' And ' duft to duft' concludes her nobleft fong. If this. fong lives, pofterity fhall know One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who... | |
 | Edward Young, Thomas Park - 1808 - 336 páginas
...inclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles, Till Death, that mighty hunter,...all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies ;' And... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...inclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey; A< wolves, for rapine ; we " These, only these, supjxm the crowded stage " From eldest ^leywood down to fibber's age.' Whit, tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame? Earth's highest station ends in " here he lies," And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 páginas
...enclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey; As wolves, for rapine ; as the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty hunter,...all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And "... | |
 | Edward Young - 1810 - 278 páginas
...inclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing^and pursu'd, each other'sprey ; As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles, Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for trinmphs of an hour? Vhat tho? we wade in wealth or soar in fame itrth's highest station ends in, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 páginas
...mounds of right, Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey; As wolves, for rapine; as the fox, for wiies; Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them alL Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And "Dust... | |
 | William Jones - 1810 - 458 páginas
...Enclosure, leap the mounds of Right, Pursuing and pursued, each others prey : As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty Hunter, earths them all. Night IV. XX. Let every man then examine his own heart, and review his Character as it is reflected... | |
 | Edward Young - 1811 - 302 páginas
...inclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursu'd, each other's prey ; As wolves, for rapine ; as the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty hunter,...triumphs of an hour ? What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies :" And " dust to dust" concludes her... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Moriarty - 1811 - 216 páginas
...inclosures, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursued, each others prey ; As wolves for rapine; as the fox for wiles ; Till death, that mighty hunter,...them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? . j. ' What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame : Earth's highest station ends in " here he... | |
 | Edward Young - 1812 - 814 páginas
...inclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursu'd, each other's prey; As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles, Till Death, that mighty hunter,...all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies;' And '... | |
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