 | 1806 - 310 pages
...unable to withstand — For goodness, whose enclosure is but flesh, Holds out oft times but sorrily. This is the state of man ; in prosperous fortune,...passing light, throws to the ground Joy's baseless fabrick ; in adversity Comes malice with a spunge moistened in gall, And wipes each beauteous character... | |
 | Greek tragic theatre - 1809 - 526 pages
...vindictive rage Hangs o'er my hated murderers, oh avenge me, Though, a poor slave, I fall an easy prey ! This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A shadow, passing light, throws to the ground (59) • .- ' " • Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Comes malice with a spunge moisten'd in gall,... | |
 | Jean-Jacques Barthélemy - 1817 - 510 pages
...eloquence with which he pourtrays the mis« chiefs of Fortune. Cassandra exclaims with indignation : This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune....Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity, Comes Malice with a sponge moistened in gall. And wipes each beauteous character away : More than the first this... | |
 | 1822 - 470 pages
...vindictive rage Hangs o'er my hated murderers, oh avenge me, Though, a poor slave, I fall an easy prey ! This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A...to the ground Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Come malice with a sponge moisten'd in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away : ':s More than... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 380 pages
...kind offer was declined, and they parted still more favourably impressed with each other. CHAPTER XIX. This is the state of man ; in prosperous fortune A...Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Comes malice with a sponge moisten'd in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away. ESCHYLUS. THE weather had... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 372 pages
...was declined, and they parted still more favourably impressed with each other. CHAPTER XIX. This i« the state of man ; in prosperous fortune A shadow...to the ground Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Conies malice with a sponge moisten'd in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away. ESCHTLUS. THE... | |
 | Susan Ferrier, Author of Marriage - 1825 - 372 pages
...offer was declined, and they parted still more favourably impressed with each other. . CHAPTER XIX. This is the state of man ; in prosperous fortune A...light, throws to the ground Joy's baseless fabric i in adversity Comes malice with a sponge moisten M in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away.... | |
 | 1827 - 684 pages
...power's baseless fabric ; and adversity, as a spunge moistened iu gall, soon wipes each fluttering trait away.' These sentiments occur in Potter's translation...as two or three quotations from Arabic poets, which arc introduced, but without any reference that might assist the reader iu discovering where he should... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pages
...smile ! O where shall man escape his num'rous foes, And rest his weary head iu safe repose? Camoens. This is the state of man ; in prosperous fortune :...Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Comes malice with a sponge moisten'd in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away. Potter's jEschylus. Agamem.... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1833 - 394 pages
...rage Hangs o'er my hated murderers, O, avenge me ; 1395 Though, a poor slave, I fall an easy prey ! This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A...Joy's baseless fabric ; in adversity Comes malice with a sponge moisten'd in gall, 1400 And wipes each beauteous character away : More than the first... | |
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