 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pages
...Shakspeare:— " There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of our life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." How poetical is the comparison to a ship in the following passage from the Merchant of Venice... | |
 | David James Burrell - 1892 - 350 pages
...! " There is a tide in the affairs of man Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of our life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." II. Observe that Jesus is standing still. What is it that has arrested his steps ? Prayer.... | |
 | Frederick Edwin Smith Earl of Birkenhead - 1910 - 452 pages
...ever-growing organism of the empire. So used, it will indeed " lead on " to fortune ; this chance omitted, " All the voyage of our life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." XIX. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. April 21, 1909. [On April 21, 1909, Mr. Asquith introduced... | |
 | Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon - 1926 - 408 pages
...: " There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of our life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." Meanwhile it is ill searching in this world for a perfect Church. Dryden has not convinced... | |
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Omitted, all the voyage of our life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 