 Glories Of Human greatness are but pleasing dreams And shadows soon decaying : on the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue : beauty, pomp,...  Jane Lomax; Or, A Mother's Crime - Page 111by Horace Smith - 1838Full view - About this book
 | English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue : osses : All shall be right again, and as a pine Rent...sweeping tempest, Jointed again, and made a mast, defies us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cal, Contemn not your condition for the proof Of bare... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue : enary purchase. Timag. He speaks home. Least. And...TimoU From whence it proceeds That the treasure of us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cal. Contemn not your condition for the proof Of bare... | |
 | 1812 - 560 pages
...of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasure*, sweetened in the mixture* But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol, are unconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cat.... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol, are unconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cat.... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 712 pages
...vanity, drawn out at length \ By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue : beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol, are unconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes assault ] On the unguarded castle of the mind.... | |
 | John Ford - 1831 - 396 pages
...vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue : beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol, are unconstant friends, When any troubled passion makes assault On the unguarded castle of the mind. Cal.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, sweeten'd in the mixture, But tragical in issue; beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol, are unconstant friends When any trouhled passion makes assault On the unguarded castle of the mind. The... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English fiction - 1842 - 700 pages
...drawnout at , ,, it length By varied pleasures — sweetened in the mixture, Bnt tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness...inconstant friends When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind.' " " Your verses," said I, " are beautiful, even to me,... | |
 | Catherine Grace Frances Gore - 1843 - 988 pages
...vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures, — sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in the issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness...inconstant friends When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind. FORD. As the unnatural composure produced by the administration... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - English fiction - 1843 - 432 pages
...varied pleasures — sw%*tened in the mixtoroi But tragical in the issue. Beauty, pomp, With eTcry sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol, are inconstant friends When any trouhled passion makes us halt on the unguarded custlc of the mind." — FoBo. As the unnatural composure... | |
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