| 1853 - Страниц: 748
...same metaphor as those inserted at the page above quoted : "Life's like an inn where travellers stay; Some only breakfast, and away : Others to dinner stay,...full fed ; The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Hard is his lot who lingers out the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay." EDW. HAWKINS.... | |
| 1892 - Страниц: 916
...where the following epitaph may still, for all that we know to the contrary, be read on his tombstone : Our life is but a winter's day : Some only breakfast...and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out his day ; He who goes soonest has the least to pay. The same epitaph is also to be seen in Stirling... | |
| Charles Kendall - 1854 - Страниц: 120
...shouted aloud the praises of God. "The life of man is like a winter's day : Some short-lived pilgrims breakfast and away ; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed, — The oldest do but sup, and go to bed. Large is their debt who spin out all the day, Who stay the shortest have... | |
| George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - Страниц: 632
...churchyard, North Wales, on the tomb of Morris and Catherine Jones, is the following curious epitaph : Our life is but a winter's day — Some only breakfast and away. Others to dinner stay and are well fed, The oldest man sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day ; Who goes... | |
| Epitaphs, Augustus John Cuthbert HARE - 1856 - Страниц: 86
...departed this life Dec. 16, 1811, aged 19. Our life is but a winter's day, — Some only breakfasts and away ; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed...sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers all the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay." Llangollen Churchyard. -' IN memory of Alexander... | |
| George Willis - 1856 - Страниц: 112
...Llangollen Churchyard west gate, is the following epitaph on the tomb of Morris and Catherine Jones. Our life is but a Winter's day— Some only breakfast and away. Others to dinner alay and are full fed, The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out... | |
| 1857 - Страниц: 848
...departed this life December 16, 1811, aged 10. " Oar life is bat a winter's day, Some only breakfasts and away; others to dinner stay, and are full fed...sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers all the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay." At Ockham, Surrey :— " The Lord saw good,—I... | |
| 1857 - Страниц: 426
...is but a winter's day, Some only breakfasts and away : Others to dinner stay, and are fall fed ; Tho oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers all the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay." At Ockham, Surrey : — " The Lord saw good,... | |
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