 | Monthly literary register - 1805 - 724 pàgines
...Nothing that's mortal can continue long ; And well the Man of Chios tun'd his fong — 41 Like It «ves on trees the race of man is found ;" Yet few receive the melancholy found, Or in their breads imprint this folemn truth, For hope is near to till, and mud to youth. In... | |
 | 1833 - 1056 pàgines
...knowing these things, — t(J the boundary of life, Dare to gratify thy soul with good things. MERIVALE. All human things are subject to decay; And well the...Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their hearts imprint this solemn truth ; For hope is near to all, but most to youth. Hope's vernal season... | |
 | 1833 - 1032 pàgines
...knowing these things, — to the boundary of life, Dare to gratify thy soul with good things. MER1VALE. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the...of Chios tuned his lay, — " Like leaves on trees tlie race of man is found"— \ Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their hearts imprint this... | |
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pàgines
...forget me not, Thy virtuous child, in death ! " XXXVII. (98. B. 104.) FRAGMENT OF AN ELEGY. * p. 185. M. ALL human things are subject to decay ; And well the man of Chios tun'd his lay, — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found" — Yet few receive the melancholy... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 542 pàgines
...leaves on trees the race of man is found" — Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their hearts imprint this solemn truth, For hope is near to all,...laughing hours, And strews o'er every path the fairest flowers : To cloud the scene no distant mists appear; Age moves no thought, and Death awakes no fear.... | |
 | John Herman Merivale - 1838 - 392 pàgines
...given to both a shield, their guardian tower Against ambitious aims and lawless power. FROM SIMONIDES. ALL human things are subject to decay ; And well the...is found." Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or on their breasts imprint this solemn truth ; For hope is near to all, but most to youth. Hope's vernal... | |
 | 1839 - 530 pàgines
...thou these things learning, unto the end of life, Thy soul with good things dare to gfatify. Merivale. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the...Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their hearts imprint this solemn truth, For hope is near to all, but most to youth. Hope's vernal season... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 pàgines
...Simonides died 467 BC in the 89th year of his age. Fragment of an Elegy on the Uncertainty of Life. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the man of Chios tun'd his lay, — ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Yet few receive the melancholy... | |
 | George Burges - 1852 - 552 pàgines
...but do you, afier learning this, endure to the end of life in gratifying your soul with good things. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the...laughing hours, And strews o'er every path the fairest flowers ; To cloud the scene no distant mists appear ; Age moves no thought, and death awakes no fear.... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pàgines
...seems to challenge more than I Have pow'r to give ; and working up my love, I serve my fortune. 363. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the man of Chios tun'd his lay, — " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found." Yet few receive the melancholy... | |
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All human things are subject to decay : And well the man of Chios tuned his lay — ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; ' Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their breasts imprint this solemn truth, For hope is near to all, but most... 
