 | English poetry - 1812 - 664 pages
...Short is his passage to the tomb ! • Man that is bom of a woman bath but a short time to live, and a full of misery ; he cometh up and is cut down like a flower, &c. Burial Service. t The dew lay all night upon my branch. B. of Job. All flesh is as grass, and all... | |
 | English poetry - 1812 - 654 pages
...Short is his passage to the tomb ! * Man that is bom of a woman halli but a short time to lire, and '' full of misery ; he cometh up and is cut down like a Hotvcr, &c. Burial Service. t The dew lay all night upon my branch. B. of Job. All flesh is as grass,... | |
 | English poetry - 1812 - 656 pages
...bloom, Short is his passage to the tomb ! * Man that is born of a woman hath bat a short time to iirc, and is full of misery ; he cometh up and is cut down Jike a flower, &c. Burial Service. t The dew lay all night upon my branch. B. of Job. All flesh is... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1813 - 226 pages
...Grave, when the Corpse is laid in the earth) the Minister tfiall iay, Sec. 4. Burial of the Dead. 137 Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comcth up, ami is cut down like a flower : he fleeth as it were a shadow, aud never continue th in... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...it made ready to be lout into the sarth, the Priat shall my, or the Priest ami Clerks shall sing : MAN that, is born of a woman hath but a short time...a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continued! in one stay. In the midst of life we arc in death : of whom may we seek for succour, but... | |
 | John George Phillimore - Digesta - 1815 - 284 pages
...concluded that the serious is the true criterion of human genius, and exhibits our true nature. "/ Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." There is only one comic writer, who walks at the side of Sophocles and Corneille — it is M oliere... | |
 | M. Derozario - Epitaphs - 1815 - 252 pages
...the Body of HENRY WAKEMAN, ESQi who departed this life on the 29th Sept. 1808. Aged 19 years " Man cometh up and is cut down like a flower, He fleeth as it were a shadow, And never continue!)) in one stay." This Monument is erected hy an afflicted Parent, Lamenting the premature... | |
 | William Dodd - Death - 1815 - 236 pages
...one, and meet the other with more courage and constancy. For what is man, and what is his life ? — Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, — short indeed, suppose it to extend to the utmost length of human existence, even to fourscore years.... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...ready to be laid into tkt earth, the Priest shall say, or the Prust and Clerks ¡ball sing : JVlAN that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and i» cut down like a flower ; he fleeth к it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 372 pages
...be concluded that the serious is the true criterion of human genius, and exhibits our true nature. " Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." There is only one comic writer, who walks at the side of Sophocles aiid Corneille—it is Moliere;... | |
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MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. 
