 | Monthly literary register - 1805 - 724 pages
...Nothing that's mortal can continue long ; And well the Man of Chios tun'd his fong 41 Like It «ves on trees the race of man is found ;" Yet few receive the melancholy found, Or in their breads imprint this folemn truth, For hope is near to till, and mud to youth. In... | |
 | 1833 - 1056 pages
...knowing these things, t(J the boundary of life, Dare to gratify thy soul with good things. MERIVALE. All human things are subject to decay; And well the...Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their hearts imprint this solemn truth ; For hope is near to all, but most to youth. Hope's vernal season... | |
 | 1833 - 1032 pages
...knowing these things, to the boundary of life, Dare to gratify thy soul with good things. MER1VALE. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the...of Chios tuned his lay, " Like leaves on trees tlie race of man is found" \ Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their hearts imprint this... | |
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pages
...forget me not, Thy virtuous child, in death ! " XXXVII. (98. B. 104.) FRAGMENT OF AN ELEGY. * p. 185. M. ALL human things are subject to decay ; And well the man of Chios tun'd his lay, " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found" Yet few receive the melancholy... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 542 pages
...leaves on trees the race of man is found" Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their hearts imprint this solemn truth, For hope is near to all,...laughing hours, And strews o'er every path the fairest flowers : To cloud the scene no distant mists appear; Age moves no thought, and Death awakes no fear.... | |
 | John Herman Merivale - 1838 - 392 pages
...given to both a shield, their guardian tower Against ambitious aims and lawless power. FROM SIMONIDES. ALL human things are subject to decay ; And well the...is found." Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or on their breasts imprint this solemn truth ; For hope is near to all, but most to youth. Hope's vernal... | |
 | 1839 - 530 pages
...thou these things learning, unto the end of life, Thy soul with good things dare to gfatify. Merivale. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the...Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their hearts imprint this solemn truth, For hope is near to all, but most to youth. Hope's vernal season... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 pages
...Simonides died 467 BC in the 89th year of his age. Fragment of an Elegy on the Uncertainty of Life. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the man of Chios tun'd his lay, ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Yet few receive the melancholy... | |
 | George Burges - 1852 - 552 pages
...but do you, afier learning this, endure to the end of life in gratifying your soul with good things. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the...laughing hours, And strews o'er every path the fairest flowers ; To cloud the scene no distant mists appear ; Age moves no thought, and death awakes no fear.... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...seems to challenge more than I Have pow'r to give ; and working up my love, I serve my fortune. 363. All human things are subject to decay ; And well the man of Chios tun'd his lay, " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found." Yet few receive the melancholy... | |
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All human things are subject to decay : And well the man of Chios tuned his lay ' Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; ' Yet few receive the melancholy sound, Or in their breasts imprint this solemn truth, For hope is near to all, but most... 
