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" tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of... "
The Saturday Magazine ...
1842
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A Family Record, and Other Matters Which, it is Hoped, Will be Good for the ...

Abraham Godshalk - 1912 - 314 páginas
...taught; And learn though late, the genuine cause of all. — Cowper ON PROCRASTINATION. 1 Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer Next day the fatal precedent will plead Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled;...
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Representative passages from English literature, chosen and arranged by W.H ...

William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 páginas
...to Heav'n. YOUNG (OUTLINE HISTORY, § 62) PROCRASTINATION (From Night Thoughts, I.) BE wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are...
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English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 páginas
...; 120 Beware, Lorenzo! a slow sudden death. How dreadful that deliberate surprise! Be wise to-day, 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. 125 Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are...
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A History of English Literature; a Practical Text-book

Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 páginas
...'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. (2) Be wise to-day : 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals till all are fled,...
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The Autobiography of a Mind

William James Dawson - 1925 - 362 páginas
...when he had gravely recited from it, for my peculiar edification, such a passage as Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent...out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time. On the cheap imitation marble mantel-shelf were the two globes, one of the physical world and the other...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 páginas
...belong to me, Poor Pensioner on the bounties of an Hour? Night Thoughts, i, 1742 140 Trocrastination } E wise to day, 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the...fatal Precedent will plead ; Thus on, till Wisdom is push'd out of life : Procrastination is the Thief of Time, B1 Year after year it steals, till all are...
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Lectures on English Poets & The Spirit of the Age

William Hazlitt - 1928 - 406 páginas
...repartee in verse. The wellknown lines on Procrastination are in his best manner : ' Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are...
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The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volumen5

William Hazlitt - 1930 - 446 páginas
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A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800

1932 - 1210 páginas
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A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800

Ronald Salmon Crane - 1932 - 1206 páginas
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