 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...lent him for an hour ! Years anexpcrienc'd rush on numerous ills ; And soon as man, expert from lime, are blind. This is lay case, who thought our utmost good Was in one word of yean I backward look And miss such numbers, numbers loo of such Firmer in health, and greener in their... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1879 - 624 pages
...Which frugal nature lent him for an houi ! 130 Years unexperienc'd rush on numerous ills ; And soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life,...death. When in this vale of years I backward look, And miss such numbers, numbers too of such, Firmer in health, and greener in their age, And stricter on... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 476 pages
...achievement seems more precious and enjoyable to me than it ever was before in life. But as soon as one has found the key of life, " it opes the gates of death." Youth has not learned the art of living, and we go on bungling till our experience can only serve us... | |
 | Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - 1886 - 282 pages
...parting." In another : " The approach of parting is the bitterness of age." In another : " As soon as one has found the key of life, ' it opes the gates of death ' ! " I find nothing here about the " greatness " of being one with each other in memories at the last;... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 pages
...than an inglorious life. Socrates. 13. As dead as a door nail. 14. As dead as a herring. 15. As soon as man expert from time has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death. Young. 1 6. As soon as man is born he begins to die. 217 17. As soon dies the calf as the cow. Fr.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1889 - 462 pages
...life, eg in Young's lines : ' Years unexperienced rush on numerous ills ; And soon as man become expert has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death.' The tripod with its incense answers also to the idea of sacrifice, by which alone, in one shape or... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...their bands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely. — Lutlier. Soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death. — Young. Death, whether it regards ourselves or othTS, appears less terrible in war than at home.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1895 - 386 pages
...achievement seems more precious and enjoyable to me than it ever was before in life. But as soon as one has found the key of life," it opes the gates of death." Youth has not learned the art of living, and we go on bungling till our experience can only serve us... | |
 | James Moores Ball - 1899 - 318 pages
...the livest dead man yet seen on earth; still, Doctor Tuffier illustrates Young's thought: "As soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gatesof death." "If," says Doctor Tuffier, "if I had had the proper mechanical means, he (the man)... | |
 | Laura Emma Lockwood, Amy Ruth Kelly - 1911 - 326 pages
...retrospect- to the child it is full of deep 1 Young's Night Thoughts, Bk. IV. 122, 123 reads: "And soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death " sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown. Witness colic and whooping-cough and dread of ghosts, to... | |
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And soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death. 
