 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 pàgines
...ballad entitled a Friend's Advice, an excellent ditty concerning the variable changes of the world: '* What if a day, or a month, or a year, Crown thy delights With a thousand wisht contentings; Cannot the chance of a night or an hour Cross thy delights, With as many sad tormentings... | |
 | Joseph Haslewood - 1815 - 360 pàgines
...Rhymicum," which has the lines above, is also the following song, with the musick, as by Tho. Campion. What if a day, or a month, or a year, Crown thy delights with a thousand wish'd contentings, Cannot a chaunce of a night, or an hour, Cross thy delights with a thousand sad... | |
 | 1823 - 734 pàgines
...was eminent as a musician, as well as a poet ; which may account for so singular a specimen of metre. What if a day, or a month, or a year, Crown thy delights with a thousand wish'd contenting* ; Cannot a chance of a night, or an hour, Cross thy delights with a thousand sad... | |
 | 1823 - 732 pàgines
...eminent as a musician, as well as a poet ; which may account for so singular a specimen of metre. AVhat if a day, or a month, or a year, Crown thy delights with a thousand wish'd contentings ; Cannot a chance of a night, or an hour, Cross thy delights with a thousand sad... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pàgines
...Fortune. 3 This any man may sing or say, f th' ditty call'd, What if a day?] An old ballad, which begins : What if a day, or a month, or a year Crown thy delights, With a thousand wish't contentings ! Cannot the chance of a night or an hour, Cross thy delights, With as many sad... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pàgines
...3 This any man may sing- or say, F th' ditty calPd, WTiat if a day?] An old ballad, which begins : What if a day, or a month, or a year Crown thy delights, With a thousand wish't contentings ! Cannot the chance of a night or an hour, Cross thy delights, With as many sad... | |
 | Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1838 - 430 pàgines
...exchange a single word — and dying covered with execration and infamy. No. LXX._ " WHAT IF A DAY." " What if a day, or a month, or a year, Crown thy delights with a thousand wisht contenting! ? May not the change of a night, or an hour, Cross thy delights with as many sad... | |
 | 1847 - 574 pàgines
...man may sing or say I' th' ditty call'd ' What if a day.'" But to the song. " A Friend's Advice." " What if a day, or a month, or a year, crown thy delights with a thousand wisht contentings? Cannot the chance of a night or an hour cross thy delights with as many sad tormentings... | |
 | 1860 - 978 pàgines
...puzzle till you helped me with Lubin." " Poor little girl !" he answered compassionately. CHAPTER XIV. " What if a day, or a month, or a year, Crown thy delights with a thousand sweet contentings, May not the change of a night or an hour Cross thy delights with as many sad tormentings ?" Old Sony.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 pàgines
...— F. Queen, ia t The old ballad is probably that of which the following is the opening stanza: — What If a day, or a month, or a year Crown thy delights • With a thousand wished contentings? Cannot the chance of a night or an hour And registered by fame eternal, In deathless... | |
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WHAT if a day, or a month, or a year Crown thy delights with a thousand sweet contentings ; Cannot a chance of a night or an hour Cross thy desires with as many sad tormentings ? Fortune, honour, beauty, youth Are but blossoms dying ; Wanton pleasure,... 
