| William Drummond - 1711 - 370 pages
...Epbemerides laid afide Glad on this bluthing Book my Death to read« г. SON. I Know that all.beneath the Moon decays, And what by Mortals in this World is brought, In Time's great Periods ihall retnrn to nought ; That faireft Stttes have fatal Nights and Days. I know that all the... | |
| Theophilus Cibber, Robert Shiells - 1753 - 384 pages
...this great man, with the following fonnet from his works, as a fpecimen of the delicacy of his mufe. I know, that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In times great period fhall return to nought ; That faireft ftates have fatal rights and days ; I know... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 912 pages
...afide Glad on this blulhing bock my death to read. II. Swwirf. I KNOW that alt beneath the moon decay-, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In Time's great periods fhall return to nought, That faireft dates have fatal nights and dayi. 1 know that all the... | |
| Friedrich Bouterwek - 1809 - 506 pages
...Works of Drummond in 2Tnberfon'i €ammtunfl^ Vol. IV. g) фиг ¡(I fine ©onctt »on S^rummonf. I know that all beneath the moon decays,' And what...by mortals in this world is brought In Time's great periods fhall return to nought , That faireft ¡¡rues have fatal nights and clays. I know that all... | |
| Henry Headley - 1810 - 238 pages
...compliments Drayton as the swain Who on the banks of Ancor tun'd his pipe. See BI Songv. p. 179. 1 KNOW that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In Time's great periods shall return to nought, That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...Achilles, or the far-famed Portland vase. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER...mortals in this world is brought, In time's great periods shall return to nought. I know that all the muse's heavenly laycs, With toil of sprite which... | |
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...Achilles, or the far-famed Portland vase. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. \ THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER...mortals in this world is brought, In time's great periods shall return to nought. I know that all the muse's heavenly layes, With toil of sprite which... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pages
...the earlier sonnets, written before the loss, which he, in other places, so feelingly deplores — " I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what...by mortals in this world is brought In time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...thought, and uniform terseness of expression. The reader may judge for himself from a few examples. " I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is wrought In time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...thought, and uniform terseness of expression. The reader may judge for himself from a few examples. " I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is wrought In time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and... | |
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