 What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.  The Complete Art of Poetry ... - Page 348by Charles Gildon - 1718Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Lockwood - Unrequited love - 1833 - 326 pages
...at least, so thought our hero. "How all occasions do conspire against me And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? A beast — no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse — Looking before... | |
 | Henry Duhring - History - 1833 - 228 pages
...be free. When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish." " What is man, ADDISON. If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed 1 a beast no more. Sure he that made us with such deep discourse, Looking before and... | |
 | Original - 1836 - 456 pages
...necessarily reduces the moral standard to a low level—so that we may almost say here, with Hamlet, "What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, Looking before,... | |
 | Truth - 1837 - 566 pages
...gratitude, and zeal for our God." " Oh ! this reminds me of our Shakspeare," said Althorpe, " ' What is man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? A beast! no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...receives and renders back His figure and his heat. 26 — iii. 3. 107 Man not to be a slave to sense. What is a man, If his chief good, and market* of his time, . Be but to sleep, and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, He, that made us with such large discourse, b Looking before,... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...Whom action out of dust to light doth bring, And makes her mount to heav'n with golden wing. ANON. What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...receives and renders back His figure and his heat. 26 — iii. 3. 107 Man not to be a slave to sense. What is a man, If his chief good, and market* of his time, Be but to sleep, and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, He, that made us with such large discourse,f Looking before,... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1839 - 154 pages
...wishing, but wanting resolution to go to Illinois. 1 begin, however, to think with Hamlet — ' What is man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...! the beauty of the world! Hamlet. Act ii. Scene 2. HIS REASON SHOULD LEAD HIM TO ACTIVITY. Hamlet What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before,... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 514 pages
...pigmy habitation, was given us to be limited by the narrow bounds of material and visible objects ? "What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more ; Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before... | |
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