 And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. And what's a life ? the flourishing array Of the proud summer meadow, which to-day Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow hay.  The Youth of Shakspeare - Page 90by Robert Folkestone Williams - 1839 - 911 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Quarles - 1806 - 478 pages
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory,...day, doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepidage. And what's a life ? The flourishing array Of the proud summer -meadow, which to-day Wears... | |
 | Francis Quarles - Consolation - 1807 - 410 pages
...last hundred years. EDITOR, XXX I SPECIMENS OF QVARIES'S POETRY. The Shortness of Life. AND what 'sa life ? — a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one...stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. And what 'sa life ? — the nourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears her green plush,... | |
 | Francis Quarles - Christian art and symbolism - 1808 - 480 pages
...weary pilgrimage, Whose glory, in one day, doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepid age» And what's a life ? The flourishing array Of...to-day Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow hay. And what's a life ? A blast sustain'd with cloathing, Maintam'd with food, retain'd with vile self-loathing,... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 238 pages
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory...what's a life ? the flourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow hay. Read on this dial *, how the... | |
 | Francis Quarles - Christian ethics - 1813 - 254 pages
...years, EDITOR, XXIV SPECIMENS o» , , QUARLES'S POETRY. AND what's a life ? — a weary pilgrimage, v Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood,...what's a life ? — the flourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow hay. Read, on this dial, how the... | |
 | Francis Quarles - Emblem books, English - 1818 - 330 pages
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill thy stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepid age. And what's a life? the flourishing array Of the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 408 pages
...his contemporaries. THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE. And what 'sa life ? A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in the day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. And what 'sa life ? The nourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears her green plush,... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...hurrying Time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory...to-day Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow hay. Read. on this dial, how the shades devour My short-liv'd winter's day ; hour eats up hour ; Alas !... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 pages
...hurrying Time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory...stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. And what 'sa life ? the flourishing array Of the proud summer meadow, which to-day Wears her green plush,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...hurrying time do give So short a warning, and so fast they drive, That I am dead before I seem to live. And what's a life ? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory...day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepid age. And what's a life ? the flourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears... | |
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