 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pàgines
...bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. — Shakespeare. Time hurries on with a resistless, nnremitting stream, yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief that slides his hand nnder the miser's pillow, and carries off his prize. — Blair. An Italian philosopher said that "... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pàgines
...To frolic on eternity's dread brink, Unapprehensive, when, for aught we know, The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in! Think we, or think we not, time hurries on 40 With a resistless unremitting stream, Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 pàgines
...To frolic on eternity's dread brink, Unapprehensive; when, for aught we know, The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in ! Think we, or think we not,...time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream, Vet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pàgines
...frolic on eternity's dread brink, Unapprehensive, when, for aught we know, us The very first swoln fit home for Thee! 1807 SHE WAS A 120 And carries off his prize. What is this world? What but a spacious burial-field unwalled, Strewed... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pàgines
...movement. The image of life as a river perpetually appears in verse and prose of the entire period. "Think we, or think we not, Time hurries on / With a resistless unremitting stream" says Blair (The Grave, 479-480). Blair's thought had been more pungently expressed by Isaac Watts in... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pàgines
...To frolic on eternity's dread brink Unapprehensive ; when for aught we know, The very first swol'n surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not,...unremitting stream ; Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight-thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And carries off his prize. — What... | |
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Think we, or think we not, time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream, Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And carries off his prize. 
