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 - 1853 - 382 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, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 354 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 "... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 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 "dust... | |
| Edward Young - 1853 - 368 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 "... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 páginas
...hum'ritts, life is most enjoy'd, When eourted least; most worth, when dieesteem'd. Young's Night Thoughts. 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 lie? "— And " dust to dust" — eoneludes... | |
| 1856 - 570 páginas
...death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. ILife. — Young. \\THY 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 noblest... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 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 " dust... | |
| Nathaniel Dearborn - 1857 - 66 páginas
...each other's prey, As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles, Till Death, that mighty hunter earth's them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's brightest station ends in "HERE HE LIES;" And "dust... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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,...them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour 7 What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in ' here he lies,"... | |
| Stephen Burroughs - 1858 - 372 páginas
...with a bare competency." I repeated to him emphatically the words of Young, in his "Night Thoughts." "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 ' Hero he lies.' " I told him I knew perfectly well his... | |
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