 | Jonathan Swift - 1751 - 362 pages
...thofe that are gone ? I think that impoflible, for not our friends only, but fo much of our felves is gone by the mere flux and courfe of years, that...to be reftored to us, we could not be reftored to our felves, to enjoy them. But as when the continual warning of a river takes a^ay our flowers and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 406 pages
...got any fupply of new Friends to make up for thofe that are gone ? I think that impoffible, for not our friends only, but fo much of ourfelves is gone...could not be reftored to ourfelves, to enjoy them. 2 But FROM DR. SWIFT, &c. 295 But as when the continual warning of a river takes away our flowers and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1761 - 424 pages
...thofe that are gone ? I think that impoffible ; for not our friends on~ ly, but fo much of ourfelvcs is gone, by the mere flux and courfe of years, that,...to be reftored to us, we could not be reftored to ourlclves, to enjoy them. But as when the continual wafhing of a river takes away our flowers and plants,... | |
 | British - 1762 - 410 pages
...friends to make up for them chat are gone ; I think that impoffible : but at, whin the continual waiting of a river takes away our flowers and plants, it throws weeds and fedges in their room ; fo the courfc of time brings us fomething, as it depiives us of a great deal: and, inftead of leaving us what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 406 pages
...got any fupply of new Friends to make up for thofe that are gone? I think that impoffible, for not our friends only, but fo much of ourfelves is gone by the mere ftux and courfeof years, that, -were the fame Friends to be reilored to us, > 9 we could not be reftored... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 464 pages
...got any fupply of new Friends to mal^ up for thofe that are gone ? 1 think that irnpoffible, for not our friends only, but fo much of ourfelves is gone...takes away our flowers and plants, it throws weeds and feclges in their room * ; fo the courfe of time brings us fomething, as it deprives us of a great •deal;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 424 pages
...got any fupply of new friends to make up for thofe that are gone ? I think that impofiible; for not our friends only, but fo much of ourfelves is gone...to be reftored to us, we could not be reftored to ourfelyes, to enjoy them. But, as when the continual warning of a river takes away our flowers and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1791 - 316 pages
...I have got any fupply of new friends to make up for them that are gone ; I think that impofTible : but as. when the continual wafhing of a river takes away our flowers and plants, it throws throws weeds and fedges in their room ; fo the. courfe of time brings us fomething, as it deprives... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 424 pages
...restored to us, we could not be restored to ourselves, to enjoy them. But, as when the continual washing of a river takes away our flowers and plants, it throws weeds and sedges in their room ; so the course of time brings us some- . thing, as it deprives us of a great... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 538 pages
...got any fupply of new Friends to make up for thofe that are gone ? I think that impoffible, for not our friends only, but fo much of ourfelves is gone...ourfelves, to enjoy them. But as when the continual warning of a river takes away our flowers and plants, it throws weeds and fedges in their room r ;... | |
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... so the course of time brings us something, as it deprives us of a great deal ; and instead of leaving us what we cultivated, and expected to flourish and adorn us, gives us only what is of some little use by accident. Thus I have acquired... 
