 Strange cozenage ! None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us...  The Philobiblion [ed. by G.P. Philes]. - Página 227por Philobiblion - 1862Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 páginas
...remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold Which fools us young and beggars us when old." Aurengzebe (famous). " Thou coward ! yet Art living ? canst not, wilt not find the road To the great... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 442 páginas
...; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly morning could not give. I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old." Again : — " 'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue ; It pays our hopes with something still that's... | |
 | 1885 - 686 páginas
...which time does not corrode or moth corrupt. In his tlnal moments he says with Dryden : " I am tired of waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young and beggars us when old." Or feels a pressing truth in Pope's words : " To whom can riches give repute or trust, Content or pleasure,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 páginas
...received : ' ARISTARCHUS is charming : how full of knowledge, of sense, of sentiment. You get him 'I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold Which fools us young, and beggars us when old.' ' Johnson, speaking of the companions of his college days, said : — ' It was bitterness which they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 páginas
...received : ' ARISTARCHUS is charming: how full of knowledge, of sense, of sentiment. You get him ' I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold Which fools us young, and beggars us when old.' ' Johnson, speaking of the companions of his college days, said :—• ' It was bitterness which they... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 456 páginas
...; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I 'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. Nor is the answer of Nourmahal inferior in beauty — Naur. Tis not for nothing that we life pursue... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 630 páginas
...remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold Which fools us young and beggars us when old." There is a good deal of moralizing of this melancholy kind in the play, the characters of which are... | |
 | 1895 - 610 páginas
...remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running conld not give. I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold Which fools us young and beggars us when old. There is a good deal of moralizing of this melancholy kind in the play, the characters of which are... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 504 páginas
...And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold Which fools us young and heggars us when old.* But in his strong religious faith, he had that consolation which the preceding... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 614 páginas
...; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old." ' These lines, the beauty of which I am perfectly ready to allow, are — would you believe it, gentlemen... | |
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