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" The world's a bubble and the Life of Man Less than a span In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but... "
The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal - Page 372
1878
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 82, Part 1; Volume 111

1812 - 778 pages
...agreeable amusement in turning over these pages. SELECT SELECT POETRY. OF MAN'S LIFE. By Lord BACOV. 'T'HE world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span ; In his conception, wretched from the womb, So to the tomb; Curst in the rradle, and brought up to...
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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth ...

John Walker - 1813 - 1014 pages
...verses of his Lo?' which Mr. Farnaby translated into Greeke, and printed both in his AvOoAoyi*, sc. The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span, &c. • • dpothtgmata. His Lordship being in Yorke house garden looking on Fishers, as they were...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 574 pages
...of his LoP.' 1 which Mr. Farnaby translated into Greeke, and printed both in his A»8oXoy»»> sc. ' The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span, &c.' ' When his Lo p . was in disfavour, his neighbours hearing how much he was indebted, came to him...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

1814 - 574 pages
...of his LoP.'s which Mr. Farnaby translated into Greeke, and printed both in his A»9oXoyio, sc. • The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span, &c.' ' Apothegmata, 1 His Lordship being in Yorke house garden looking on Fishers, as they were throwing...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...rationis clientelam st debeant!' Bacon's ' Considerations touching the Queen's Service in THE WORLD. ' The World's a bubble : and the life of man Less than a span. In his conception wretched ; from the womb So to the tomb. Nurst from hie cradle, and brought up to...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...rationis dientelam se jebcant!' Bacon's ' Considerations touching the Queen's Service m THE WORLD. ' The World's a bubble : and the life of man Less than a span. In his conception wretched ; from the womb So to the tomb. Nurst from his cradle, and brought up to...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 45

1839 - 894 pages
...chancellors. They are obviously copied from some of the Greek epigrams on the same subject. THE WORLD. " The world's a bubble : and the life of man Less than a span. In his conception wretched ; from the womh, So to the tomb. Nurst from his cradle, and brought up to...
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Saturday Night: Comprising a Review of New Publications, Biography ..., Volume 1

1824 - 486 pages
...quill, ami not with the fingers, as is the present custom. HUMAN LIFE. WRITTEN IN THE AGE OF SHAKSPEARE. The world's a bubble, And the life of Man Less than a span. In his conception wretched, From the womb To the tomb. Curs'dfrom his cradle, And brought up to years,...
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An Amended Version of the Book of Job: With an Introduction and Notes ...

George Rapall Noyes - 1827 - 214 pages
...Ver. 1. The following lines are quoted by Dr. Good, as from a well known production of Lord Bacon : The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span. In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb. Curst from the cradle, and brought up to...
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Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and Others

Sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 236 pages
...MS. (where the poem is transcribed) are either too inaccurate or too trifling to need mention.] HE World's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span ; — In his Conception wretehed, from the womb, So to the Tomb ; — [ Cjurst from his Cradle, and...
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