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. AMONG MY BOOKS - Sivu 12tekijä(t) JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Cyrus Redding - 1863 - 980 sivua
...Dryden writes thinking " To-morrow will repay ! — To-morrow falser than the former day Lies more; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cute off what we possesst. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure... | |
| John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 394 sivua
...liquentem."—VIRGIL. " When I cousider Life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fool'd with Hope, men favour the deccit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's...while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cnts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! None would live past years again, Yet all hope Pleasure... | |
| John Timbs - 1865 - 348 sivua
...the stern reality of Dryden's celebrated lines : 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 day, Lies more, and when it says we shall be blest With some... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 sivua
...injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.* Ibid. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2. 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... | |
| Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 sivua
...pleasure ? Dryden never wrote more vigorous lines than those which he put into the mouth of Aurungzebe : When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled...To-morrow's falser than the former day, Lies worse, aud while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage!... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1866 - 328 sivua
...cries out, with a bitter disappointment : — " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat : Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit, Trust on, and think...the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we should be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest." And this view of life is quite true.... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sivua
...you but know what joys your way attend, You would not hurry to your journey's end. Dry. Auren. iv. 1. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fooled...shall be blest With some new joys," cuts off what we possess 'd, Ib. Iv. 1. Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to... | |
| Severn river - 1867 - 458 sivua
...and noble fires, Vigorous health and gay desires. CO-WLEY. To-morrow and To-morrow and To-morrow ! I consider life, 'tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with...former day, Lies worse ; and while it says, we shall be blessed With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years... | |
| 730 sivua
...those treacherous women !' Mr. Archibald Sturge was a devotee to misogamy. CHAPTER VII. ON THE TRACK. ' Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's...shall be blest With some new joys," cuts off what we posses!.' THE brothers are soon seated in a hansom, and speeding towards Chelsea, the district in which... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sivua
...death. Measure for Measure, Act III. Aurenge-Zebe. 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 day, Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some... | |
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