 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...  Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes - Seite 1201856Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1836 - 746 Seiten
...to compose those verses on his death, which, being short, the most appropriate may be repeated : ' Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, oar all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave When we have... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1837 - 532 Seiten
...exemplars, was Tinted by the parliament with the infliction of a fine of £500 for his severity, " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we hare, And pays us bat with age and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all... | |
 | 1839 - 214 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1839 - 256 Seiten
...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...dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." MER S E. Г LIVERPOOL. ON the eastern bank... | |
 | 1840 - 406 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days!" The chief memorial of the Lieutenant's Lodgings refers also to the reign of James. In a room on the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 686 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 Seiten
...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,...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." YODNO. • ALMANACS,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 Seiten
...following verses in prospect of death : — Kven such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our juys, u { ? }䓏 W x S }p stury of our days ! While in prison in expectation of death, cither on this or the former occasion,... | |
 | 1891 - 850 Seiten
...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... | |
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