 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
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...life is most enjoy'd, When courted least ; most worth, when disesteem'd. Young's Night Thoughts, n. 3. Why all this toil for 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...enclosure, 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,...them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? \ j What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in, " here he lies:"... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 284 páginas
...right, Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles, 95Till 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... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 588 páginas
...enclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursucd, each other's prey; As wolves for rapine ; as the fox for wiles ; Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. YOUNG. of others : Toawaken your compassion, J here a beggar holds oat the stump of a thigh or an arm... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 páginas
...Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine ; as the fox for wiles; Till Heath, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this...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 noblest... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 páginas
...woman to possess it, but to be without it, is a grievous crime. No. 213.] ANXIOUS CARE. [WEDNESDAY. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station end* in, " Here he lies." And " Dust to dust" concludes her... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine ; at the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, ti\M mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame 1 Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies," And "... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 páginas
...inclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursn'd ; each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles : Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all! — Youny. Day. IV. Id. 12. John de Santeul, 1630, Paris. Philip, Duke of Orleans, 1725. Charles William... | |
 | Edward Young - 1834 - 370 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... | |
 | Stephen Burroughs - 1835 - 372 páginas
...competency." I repeated to him emphatically the words of Young, in his '?Night Thoughts." " Why aH this toil for triumphs of an hour? " What tho* we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, " Earth's highest station ends in "Here he lies." 1 told him I knew perfectly well his... | |
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