 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Ib. Van. HW 255. The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still...therefore said, by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages,... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'TU folly to be wise, 100 GRAY. THE THREE WARNINGS. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground 'T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...world, whose years Of bliss unfading, cloudless, know no end. LXXT. THE THREE WARNINGS. A '!':-. i'.. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still...therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp and sickness rages,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...clasp had blessed Had they only not come too late — too late!" FITZ HUGH LUDLOW. THE THREE WARNINGS. ur ; T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with year« So much, that in our... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - English language - 1880 - 618 pages
...gegenüberstellen: Of feelings fierier far bue less severe (L. BYRON). Some less majestic, less beloved head (ID.). The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground (MRS. THRALE). On loftiest and least shelter'd rocks (L. BYRON). There are maidens in Scotland more... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - Elocution - 1881 - 524 pages
...chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. 3. Twas said, by ancient sages, That love of life increas'd with years So much, that, in our later stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. 4. Of all... | |
 | Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...pattern forever and aye: 0, sailor boy! sailor boy! peace to thy soul I THE THREE WARNINGS. MRS. TRRALK. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground; T was, therefore, said, by ancient eages. That love of life increased with years; So much, that, in... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...him afford no other trace Than this, — there lived a man ! JAMES MONTGOMERY. THE THREE WARNINGS. n till night ; And they made a molten image, : T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years 80 much, that in our... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...My life is like a stroll upon the beach, j. THOREAU— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. ring o'er to executors pole The lazy yawning drone. «. Henry V. Act 肀 increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows sharp, and sickness rages,... | |
 | Similitudes, B. S. - Quotations, English - 1882 - 136 pages
...should be prudent, never live too fast — Profusion will not, cannot always last. I 2 Dr. Wolcot. Least willing still to quit the ground; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages That love of life increased with years, So much, that in our later stages, When pains grow sharp and sickness rages,... | |
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THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of... 
