 Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The spring entombed in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot ; The flight is past — and man forgot.  The Miscellaneous Works - Page 49by William Hazlitt - 1854Full view - About this book
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pages
...light Is straight call'd in and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring intomb'd in autumn lies, The dew's dried up, the star is shot, The flight is past — and man forgot. WILLIAM DRUMMOND, Of Hawthornden, son to Sir John Drumraond, was born in 1585 ; educated at the High... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 pages
...to-night. The wind blows out ; the bubble, dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up ; the. star is shot : The flight is past, and man forgot. Dr. King's Poems, p. 139. * Yet (now, what busy path soe'er you tread To greatness, you must sleep... | |
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...straight called in and paid to-night: — The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The Spring entombed in Autumn lies; The dew's dried up, the star is shot, The flight is past, and man forgot. EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE. " EARLY to bed and early to rise ; " Aye, note it down in your brain,... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 pages
...to-night. The wind blows oat, the bubble dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot. DR. KINO. Dr. Henry King was born 1591, and died 1669 ; he was chaplain to James I. and Bishop of Chichester.... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot; The flight is past — and man forgot. KIKKE WHITE. THE pious man, In this bad world where mists and couchant storms Hide Heaven's fine circlet,... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1825 - 556 pages
...paid to-night. The wind blows out; the buWe dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot." Dr. King's Poems, I>. 139, ut ?a;>.a. See Bishop Taylor's Works, vol. ip 335, was his own, by our owu... | |
 | John Mitford - 1827 - 360 pages
...that on water stood : Ev'n such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight called in and paid to night : The wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring entomb'd...star is shot, The flight is past, and man forgot. BY AN EPITAPH. HERE she lies, whose spotless fame, Invites a stone to learn her name : The rigid Spartan... | |
 | John Mitford - 1827 - 358 pages
...water stood : Ev'n such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight called in and paid to night : Thi' wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring entomb'd...star is shot, The flight is past, and man forgot. AN EPITAPH. WERE she lies, whose spotless fame, Invites a stone to learn her name : The rigid Spartan... | |
 | 1828 - 398 pages
...to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot; The flight is past — and man forgot. ILINO. THE SETTING SUN. THAT setting sun— that setting sun ! What scenes, since first its race begun,... | |
 | 1828 - 852 pages
...and paid to night : The wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring entomb'd iu autumn lies : The dew dried up, the star is shot, The flight is past, and man forgot."p. 162. " From Poems, by John Cleveland. 1658. Mount of Olives. " Sweet sacred hill ! on whose... | |
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