 tis all a cheat : Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.  The Connecticut Wits: And Other Essays - Seite 62von Henry Augustin Beers - 1920 - 256 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Davies - 1784 - 524 Seiten
...pofiefs'd. Strange cozenage ! None would live pad years again, Yet all hope plcafure from what yet remain ; And from the dregs of life hope to receive , What the firft fprightly runnings cannot give. I'm tir'd with waking for this chemic gold, Which fools us young... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 Seiten
...day. Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest "With some new joys, cuts off what we possess'd. Strange cozenage, none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure from what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive "What the first sprightly running could not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...than enjoyed, in the general condition of human life ; and frequently quoted those lines of Dryden : " Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again. " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain." For his part, he said, he never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat, were an... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 Seiten
...than enjoyed, in the general condition of human life ; and frequently quoted those lines of Dryden : " Strange cozenage! none would live past years • again, " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain." For his part, he said, he never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat, were an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 Seiten
...than enjoyed, in the general condition of human life; and he often quoted these lines of Dryden: " Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain." For his part, he said, he never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat, were an... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 Seiten
...*e Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest " With some new joys, cuts off what we possest " 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 Seiten
...day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts oft' what we possest. 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... | |
 | William Marrat, Pishey Thompson - 1812 - 488 Seiten
...to sooth with insidious words; to wheedle; hence our English words, cozen, to cheat; cozenage, &c. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again....from what still remain; And from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give. DRYDEN, AURENOZEBE, ACT 4. In the... | |
 | 1816 - 600 Seiten
...armulo — Health, equanimity, and steady intellectual energy, were irretrievably sacrifieed. He cannot, "from the dregs of life, " Hope to receive, " What the first sprightly running oould not give," and cares not how soon the curtain drops. Hut the experience which is useless... | |
 | 1816 - 644 Seiten
...— Health, equanimity, aud steady intellectual energy, were irretrievably sacrificed. He cannot, " from the dregs of life, " Hope to receive, " What the first sprightly running could not give," and cares not how soou the curtain drops. But the experience which is useless... | |
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