| Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...To drag you patient through the tedious length Of a short winter's day, — say, sages! say, Wit's oracles! say, dreamers of gay dreams! How will you...weather an eternal night, Where such expedients fail ? What is lime. I ASKED an aged man, with hoary hairs, Wrinkled and curved with worldly cares! "Time... | |
| Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pages
...To drag you patient through the tedious length Of a short winter's day, — say, sages! say, Wit's oracles! say, dreamers of gay dreams! How will you...weather an eternal night, Where such expedients fail ? What is Time. ^ rnn ''M ^sfce W lif ' v k /ASKED an aged man, with hoary hairs, Wrinkled and curved... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 636 pages
...To drag you patient through the tedious length Of a short winter's day — say, sages ! say, Wit's oracles ! say, dreamers of gay dreams ! How will you...weather an eternal night Where such expedients fail ? THE IMMORTAL AND THE MORTAL LIFE. E'en silent Night proclaims my soul immortal ; E'en silent Night... | |
| Adeline M. Butterworth - 1911 - 104 pages
...drag your patience through the tedious length Of a short winter's day — say — sages ; say Wit's oracles ; say — dreamers of gay dreams ; How will...weather an eternal night, Where such expedients fail ? * O treacherous conscience ! while she seems to sleep On rose and myrtle, lull'd with syren song... | |
| 1915 - 368 pages
...To drag you patient through the tedious length Of a short winter's day, — say, sages ! say, Wit's oracles ! say, dreamers of gay dreams ! How will you...weather an eternal night, Where such expedients fail? DB. EDWABD YOUNG, 'Time" And that which is agreeable to him is faith, and meekness. Be filled with... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...tedious length Of a short winter's day, — say, sages ! say, Wit's oracles ! say, dreamers of guy dreams ! How will you weather an eternal night, Where such expedients fail ? DR. HOWARD YOUNG. PROCRASTINATION. FROM "NIGHT THOUGHTS," NIGHT I. BE wise to-day ; 't is madness... | |
| Henry Charles Shelley - 1914 - 358 pages
...To drag your patient through the tedious length Of a short winter's day — say, sages ! say, Wit's oracles ! say, dreamers of gay dreams ! How will you...weather an eternal night. Where such expedients fail ? " Death was imminent, he continued, for the " hours that lately smil'd " were already with the past... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...To drag you patient through the tedious length Of a short winter's day, — say, sages ! say, Wit's obly stem tyrannic pride, Or nobly die, the second...glorious part, (The patriot's God peculiarly thou art, ? DR. EDWARD YOUNG. PROCRASTINATION. FROM "NIGHT THOUGHTS," NIGHT I. BE wise to-day ; 't is madness... | |
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