 | Thomas Davies - Theater - 1784 - 524 pages
...dregs of life hope to receive , What the firft fprightly runnings cannot give. I'm tir'd with waking for this chemic gold, Which fools us young and beggars us when old ! In the judgement of Addifon,* thefe are the bed lines in the play. But the re* Spectator. ply of... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...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 u» young, and beggars us when old. Nour, Tis not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...And from the dregs of life think to receive What the fresh sprightly running could not give : I 'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools...pretty, and which most people have felt the truth of. I think one can't leave the world in a better time than now, when there is no such thing as real friendship,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 526 pages
...And from the dregs of life think to receive What the fresh sprightly running could not give : I 'in tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools...pretty, and which most people have felt the truth of. I think one can't leave the world in a better time than now, when there is no such thing as reaJ friendship,... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 pages
...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, and beggars us when old." This is the celebrated Sarah, who, at the age of eightyfour, when she was told she must either submit... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. MOU8QUETAIRE COLLAR PATTERN, BY MRS. PDLLAN THE WORK-TABLE FRIEND. MOUSQUETAIRE COLLAR. Materials.—... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...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...gold Which fools us young and beggars us when old.* But in his strong religious faith, he had that consolation which the preceding laureate and his good... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...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..." Which fools us young, and beggars us when old." To which, let me add, if Burke wished to make poetical rejoinder, he had but to quote the lines of... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...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 ns young, and beggars us when old." To which, let me add, if Burke wished to make poetical rejoinder,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give. Fm tired with waiting for this chemic G-old, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. £, — Byron. Q.RIEF should be the instructor of the wise ; Sorrow is Knowledge : they who know the... | |
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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... 
