... with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books - Էջ 279Titus Lucretius Carus - 1714Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 էջ
...off what we possest. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I 'm tired of waiting for this chymic gold Which fools us young... | |
| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 էջ
...off what we possest. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chymic gold Which fools us young... | |
| Edward Wortley Montagu - 1870 - 544 էջ
...possest. • Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what still remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give." , -: Several persons now came up to my companion, and taking... | |
| John Dryden - 1871 - 368 էջ
...off what we possest. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain. And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chymic gold. Which fools us young... | |
| John Dryden - 1871 - 380 էջ
...cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chymic gold. Which fools us young... | |
| Charles Henry Parry - 1872 - 508 էջ
...wh.it we possess'd. ' Strange cozenage ! None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And from the dregs of life, think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give." I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us... | |
| Book - 1872 - 326 էջ
...possest. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again ; Yet all hope pleasure in what still remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the fresh sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young... | |
| John Dryden - 1874 - 376 էջ
...off what we possest. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chymic gold, Which fools us young... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 էջ
...off what we possest. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And from the dregs of life think to receive .What the first sprightly running could not give. Aureng-zebe. Act iv. Sc. I. All delays are dangerous in war.1... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 192 էջ
...off what we possest. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again ; Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And from the dregs of life think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give."* It was observed to Dr. Johnson, that it seemed strange that... | |
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