 | Frederic William Farrar - 1891 - 394 pages
...decay, •So perish these when those have passed away ; — or we might come down to Addison, "Alas! man was made in vain! how is he given away to misery...mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death!" or, again, to Sir Walter Scott: "And this, I said, is the progress and the issue of human wishes! Nursed... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pages
...Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest Human Life." 14. I here fetched a deep sigh. "Alas," said I, " man...and swallowed up in death!" The genius, being moved in compassion toward me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more," said he, " on man... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1893 - 332 pages
...arches." " These," said the genuis, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest Human Life." I here...swallowed up in death ! " The genius, being moved in compassion toward me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no more," said he, " on man... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...middle arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. I here...The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid-ing quit so uncomfortable a prospect : look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 pages
...middle arches. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. I here...is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured irt life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1895 - 264 pages
...genius, are envy, 25 avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares and passions, that infect human life. I here fetched a deep sigh ; alas, said...mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! ence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." 15 I here fetched a deep sigh. " Alas," said I, " man...bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no 20 more," said he, " on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life." 15 I here fetched a deep sigh. " Alas," said I, " man...bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. " Look no 20 more," said he, " on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like Cares and Passions that infest humane Life, I here fetched a deep Sigh, Alas, said I, Man...towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a Prospect t Look no more, said he, on Man in the first Stage of his Existence, in his setting out for Eternity... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...to lie closer together, se tion. resserrer, or se multiplier. 32. to run, etc., aller et venir. IV. I here fetched a deep sigh. ' Alas,' said I, ' man...The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. ' Look no more,' 5 said he, ' on man in the first stage of... | |
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on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it. 
