 | mrs. Alexander Fraser - 1872 - 260 pages
...CHAPTER X. LA FAIM CHASSE LB LOOT HORS DU BOIS. '' When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit, Trust on, and think...day, Lies worse ; and while it says, " We shall be blest With some new joys," cuts oif what we possess'd !' L)RYDEN. DENISON began to chafe impatiently... | |
 | Charles Henry Parry - Dissenters, Religious - 1872 - 508 pages
...Aurengzebe, which has been so much applauded : — / " ' When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit : Trust on, and think...former day, Lies worse ; and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off wh.it we possess'd. ' Strange cozenage ! None would live past years... | |
 | Book - Birthdays - 1872 - 326 pages
...is most truly what Dryden sternly describes : — When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think...repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day, Lies more ; and when it says we shall be blest With some new joy, cuts off" what we possest. Strange cozenage... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 192 pages
...of Dryden, equally philosophical and poetical : " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think...former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...substance and more sinuous in its rhythms. Aureng-Zebe's meditations at times are quiet even to melancholy: When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit, Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow's falser than the former day... | |
 | Francois Bernier - History - 1996 - 570 pages
...Scene r, ihc best lines in the play : — Aur. When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay : To morrow 's falser than the former ilay ; Lies worse ; and, while it says, we shall be blest With... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 566 pages
...late request; Is no return due from a grateful breast? I grow impatient, till I find some way Aureng: When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet fooled...will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Aureng-Zebe IV 258 Or: Must I at length the sword of justiee draw? Oh, cursed effects of necessary... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...Dryden's rhymed heroic plays, performed 1675, printed 1676. This speech is from 1v. i. 33-44. Aureng-Zebe. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled...former day; Lies worse; and while it says, 'We shall be blessed With some new joys', cuts off what we possessed. Strange coz'nage! None would live past years... | |
 | Graham Wootton - History - 1998 - 326 pages
...directness of approaches to the Cabinet? It cannot be that, in dealing with a Ministry: '. . . fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay . . .' because one knows (and generally ex-servicemen knew) that the decisions they sought were not... | |
 | John Gardner - Fiction - 2005 - 436 pages
...his mouth. Santisillia recited dramatically: When I consider Life, 'tis all a Cheat; Yet, FooFd by Hope, men favour the Deceit, Trust on, and think Tomorrow...will repay! Tomorrow's falser than the former Day . . . 366 It was that instant that the earthquake broke loose in earnest. Peter Wagner rolled blindly,... | |
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tis all a cheat, Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. 
