This world a hunting is, The prey poor man, the Nimrod fierce is Death ; His speedy greyhounds are Lust, sickness, envy, care, Strife that ne'er falls amiss, With all those ills which haunt us while we breathe. Now, if by chance we fly Of these the eager... The Duchess de la Vallière: A Play in Five Acts - Page 96by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Ellis - 1790 - 346 pages
...heav'n ? Sweet artlefs fongfter, thou my mind doft raife To airs of fpheres, yes, and to angels' lays. THIS world a hunting is, The prey poor man ; the Nimrod fierce is death; His fpeedy greyhounds are Luft, ficknefs, envy, care, Strife, that ne'er falls amifs, With all thofe... | |
| English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...heav'n ? Sweet artless songster, thou my mind dost raise To airs of spheres, yes, and to angel's lays. THIS world a hunting is, The prey poor man ; the Nimrod fierce is Death ; . His speedy greyhounds are Lust, sickness, envy, care, • Strife, that ne'er falls amiss, With... | |
| 1832 - 614 pages
...inadequate notion of the exaggerating extent to which we have carried despondency. He therein makes Sorrow in hell, introducing the reader to the principal...in our history ! With our earlier writers Young was in-, innately acquainted and deeply imbued. But of all great poets his plagiarisms are the least naked.... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...obey'd his cry ? Only the echoes, which he made relent, Rung from their flinty caves, repent, repent. This world a hunting is, The prey poor man, the Nimrod fierce is death, His speedy greyhounds are, Lust, sickness, envy, care, Strife that ne'er falls amiss, With all those... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - 228 pages
...inadequate notion of the exaggerating extent to which we have carried despondency. He therein makes Sorrow in hell, introducing the reader to the principal...acquainted and deeply imbued. But of all great poets hie plagiarisms are the least naked. Drummond says— E 3 " This world a hunting is; The prey poor... | |
| William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 pages
...shape doth change ; that lies despis'd, Which was so dear of late, and highly priz'd. THE WOULD A GAME. THIS world a hunting is — The prey, poor man ; the Nimrod fierce, is Death ; His speedy greyhounds are, Lust, Sickness, Envy, Care; Strife that ne'er falls amiss, With all those... | |
| William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...shape doth change ; that lies despis'd, Which was so dear of late, and highly priz'd. THE WOULD A GAME. THIS world a hunting is — The prey, poor man ; the Nimrod fierce, is Death; His speedy greyhounds are, Lust, Sickness, Envy, Care ; Strife that ne'er falls amiss, With all those... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1836 - 720 pages
...and old age at hand. Not one among • mortals whom Jupiter heaps not with afflictions," &c. It is chiefly from this more sombre order of reflection...This world a hunting is ; The prey poor man — the Nitnrod fierce is death." And Young at once familiarizes and exalts the image — " I see the circling... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1836 - 402 pages
...inadequate notion of the exaggerating extent to which we have carried despondency. He therein makes Sorrow in hell, introducing the reader to the principal...his plagiarisms are the least naked. Drummond says — E3 " This world a hunting is ; The prey poor Man — the Nimrod fierce is Death." And Young at... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...rupture, and we find The bodily spirit mounting to the mind. Sim KGEBTOM BEYDOK, 1762-188". LINES. This world a hunting is The prey, poor man ; the Nimrod fierce is Death ; His speedy grayhounds are Lust, sickness, envy, care, Strife that ne'er falls amiss, With all those... | |
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