 An age of pleasures, revelled out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow ; but the life, Weary of riot, numbers every sand, Wailing in sighs, until the last drop down ; So to conclude calamity in rest.  Dramatic Works of John Ford ... - Page 95by John Ford - 1827Full view - About this book
 | John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...consisted ; living here, We are heav'n's bounty all, but fortune's exercise. Ero. Minutes are numb' red by the fall of sands, As by an hour-glass * ; the...our graves, and we look on it. An age of pleasures, re veil' d out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow : but the life, Weary of riot, numbers every... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...hasty selling is commonly as disadvantageable as interest.—Lard Bacon. DCCCCLm. Minutes are numbered by the fall of sands, As by an hour-glass; the span...last, and ends in sorrow: but the life, Weary of riot, numb ere every sand, Wailing in sighs, until the last drop down; So to conclude calamity in rest. DCCCCI.1V.... | |
 | Philip Massinger - English drama - 1840 - 768 pages
...We are lieaveifs bounty~atI;T>ut fortune's e«rcisp. Era. Minutes are number'd hy (be fall of s*n&. As by an hourglass ; the span of time Doth waste us...our graves, and we look on it : An age of pleasures, r^ifiUM out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow ;but tfae life, Weary of riot, numbers every sand,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...consisted ; living here, We are heav'n's bounty all, but fortune's exercise. Ero. Minutes are number'd he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still...undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's hist, and ends in sorrow : but the life, Weary of riot, numbers every sand, Wailing in sighs, until... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...Lover's Melancholy. The end of a wasted life is thus touchingly set forth : " Minutes are numbered by the fall of sands, As by an hour-glass ; the span...our graves, and we look on it : An age of pleasures revelled out, comes home At last and ends in sorrow ; but the life, Weary of riot, numbers every sand,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...consisted ; living here, We are heav'n's bounty all, but fortune's exercise. Ero. Minutes are number' J by the fall of sands, As by an hour-glass ; the span...of time Doth waste us to our graves, and we look on ¡t. An age of pleasures, revell'd out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow : but the life, Weary... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. --Isaiah, xxvi. 20. MINUTES are number'd by the fall of sands, As by an hour-glass; the span...look on it. An age of pleasures, revell'd out, comes Lome At last, and ends in sorrow; but the life, Weary of riot, numbers every sand, Waiting in sighs,... | |
 | Philip Massinger, John Ford - English drama - 1869 - 746 pages
...consisted. Living here, — ' \Ve are heaven's bounty all, but fortune's exercise. Ero. Minutes are number'd by the fall of sands, As by an hourglass ; the span...our graves, and we look on it : An age of pleasures, réveil 'd out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow ; but the life. Weary of riot, numbers every... | |
 | Richard Nicholls Worth - English poetry - 1875 - 220 pages
...rich cheer, Dainty, delicious ! MELEANDER, The Lovers' Melancholy, act ii. sc. 2. MINUTES are numbered by the fall of sands, As by an hour-glass ; the span...our graves, and we look on it : An age of pleasures, revelled out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow ; but the life, Weary of riot, numbers every sand,... | |
 | John Ford - English drama - 1888 - 508 pages
...consisted. Living here, We are Heaven's bounty all, but Fortune's exercise. Era. Minutes are numbered by the fall of sands, As by an hourglass ; the span...our graves, and we look on it : An age of pleasures, revelled out, comes home At last, and ends in sorrow ; but the life, Weary of riot, numbers every sand,... | |
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