 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 Living Age - Page 2871908Full view - About this book
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...if wild beasts and men did seek 35 To like, to love, to choose alike. Sir Walter Raleigh. IV LIFE. 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... | |
 | E. Wadham - 1869 - 176 pages
...again ; And both in one have brought us hither, That we may know our whence and whither. FT PALGEATE. 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... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...and ears, no tongues to speak ; They hear, and see, and sigh ; and then they break. Anon. VI LIFE. 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... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...attention, coming from a man of such mature experience and thought, seldom expressing himself in verse.] '"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... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - 1870 - 322 pages
...and all I give ; To Thee I die; to Thee I only live ! lONOTO. XXII. THE WOELD.1 (By Lord Bacon.) 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 ; 1 " Rel. Wotton." Signed as below in... | |
 | 1871 - 590 pages
...pure clay ; Honour the darling but of one short day." Bacon is more comprehensive in despair : — " 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." Over all the poetry of Raleigh there... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 634 pages
...his Lop. with a cabinet of Jewells, lis Letters, ito Greeke, and printed both in his A.v0o\oyia, sc. The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span, &c. [As this translation by Lord Bacon is not generally known, we give it entire. T. Farnaby's Rpigramata... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...frenzy, Who Love can temper thus, Good Lord deliver us. FRANCIS, LORD BACON. 1560—1626. 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; — Cursed from his cradle, and brought... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...through the immense Of ether, circling the resplendent sun In calm and simple grandeur. EDWIN ATHERSTONE. 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... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1875 - 316 pages
...all I give ; To Thee I die ; to Thee I only live ! IOifOTO. XXII. THE WOELD.1 (I.iv Lord Bacon.) 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 ; 1 " Rel. Wotton." Signed as below in... | |
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