 I am a knave, if I know what to say, What course to take, or which way to resolve. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, ' Wherein my imaginations run like sands, Filling up time; but then are turn'd and turn'd: So that I know not what to stay upon,...  Cheveley, Or, The Man of Honour - Page 185by Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...Wherein my imagination runs like sands, Filling up time ; but then are turned, and turned, So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in art. BEN JONSON. A BAINY and gloomy winter was just drawing to its close, when I left Paris for the South of France.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...greater feeling to the worse. Shake. Riehard II. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, Wherein m' imaginations run like sands, Filling up time ; but then are turn'd and turn'd: So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in art. Jonson's Every Men in his Humour Subtle opinion,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...to the worse. Shaks. Riehard II. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, Wherein m' imaginntions run like sands, Filling up time ; but then are turn'd and turn'd : So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in art. Jonson's Every Man in his Humour Subtle opinion,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...answers to the master's hand divine! A F.rsv BRAIN. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, Wherein m' imaginations run like sands, Filling up time; but then are turn'd and turn'd : So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in art. FALSE LOVE. Who that feels what love is here,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 608 pages
...the fire to rise no more. And thus was consummated the martyrdom of the Baptism of Fire. COQ-AL'ANE. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, Wherein...imaginations run like sands, Filling up time ; but then are turned, and turned, So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in art BEN Jonsoir. A RAINY... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 pages
...heavens. Webster. THE IMAGINATIONS OF THE BRAIN. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, Wherein m' imaginations run like sands, Filling up time ; but then are turn'd and turn'd. So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in act. Ben Jonson. THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS. To be good... | |
 | 1870 - 610 pages
...loose consorts. I am a knave, if I know what to say, What course to take, or which way to resolve ! hem mourn ? who shall take up his lute, And touch...silent sleep Upon my eyelids, making me dream, and cry tuniM, So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in act. — It shall be so. Nay I dare... | |
 | sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - 588 pages
...loose consorte. 1 am a knave, if I know what to say, What course to take, or which way to resolve ! m lasts, he'll turn the age to gold. [Exeunt. ACT...II.— SCENE I. An Outer Room in LOVEWIT'S House. Ente thon are turu'd aud turu'd, So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in act. — It shall... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 pages
...the fire to rise no more. And thus was consummated the martyrdom of the Baptism of Fire. COQ-AL'ANE My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, Wherein...imaginations run like sands, Filling up time ; but then are turned, and turned, So that I know not what to stay upon And less to put in art. BEN JONSON. A RAINY... | |
 | 1884 - 794 pages
...affliction ; convert ignorance into ail amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. A'idison. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass. Wherein my imaginations run like sunds, Filling 'up time.' Jonson. He who is eager to be a great and noble man in the future, must in... | |
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