EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this... Specimens, with memoirs, of the less-known British poets. With an intr ... - Página 149editado por - 1881Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Roscoe - 1839 - 256 páginas
...same great terminus. As the gallant Sir Walter Raleigh writes — " Even such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." MER S E. Г LIVERPOOL. ON the eastern bank of the estuary of the Mersey stands the important and flourishing... | |
| 1839 - 214 páginas
...spot moreover is pointed out, where hundreds of the dead were promiscuously thrown into a pit : " E'en such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we hare wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." We have now brought to conclusion this... | |
| 1840 - 406 páginas
...his lady had taken leave of him, he wrote the following verses on a hlank leaf of his Bihle : — " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us hut with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 páginas
...the last night he spent in this room, or in the world, he wrote on a blank leaf of his Bible:— " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth,...dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days!" The chief memorial of the Lieutenant's Lodgings... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 686 páginas
...poet — the universal Raleigh, who was then in the sixty-seventh year of his age : — " Even such il 9Ṃ A a+ e & t D ^BS K8 7/ s K y L M _ X 0 3 vays us '""• with aye au'l dust: Who,' in the dark and silent grave, When wo have wander'd all cur... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 páginas
...Tyller, Esq.,FRS 12mo, 3rd ed., p. 357.] E'EN such is time ! who takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust : Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days! But from this earth, this grave, this dust,... | |
| William Goodman - 1844 - 378 páginas
...reels to this, another to that wall, 'Tis the same error that deludes them all." HORACE. ALMANACS. " Even such is Time, that takes on trust, Our youth,...; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our days, Shuts up the story of our days." RALEIGH. " Time is the stuff life is made of."... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...following verses in prospect of death : — Kven such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our juys, u { ? }䓏 W x S }p wandered all our ways, Shuts up the stury of our days ! While in prison in expectation of death, cither... | |
| 1891 - 850 páginas
...with a last brave smile. Then the famous prisoner takes up a pen and writes his farewell verses : — Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wardered all our ways, Shuts up the... | |
| 1846 - 608 páginas
...youth." The verses, which breathe a spirit of the most unshaken fortitude, end thus, — " Even sur.h is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with nge and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
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