 Think we or think we not, time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream, Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief That slides his hand under the miser's pillow And carries off his prize. What is this world ? What but a spacious burial-field...  "1745.": A Tale - Page 60by Seventeen forty-five - 1859 - 158 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...dread brink Unapprehensive; when, for aught we know, The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not, time hurries on. With a resistless, unremitting stream; Yet treads joiore soft 'than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow,... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1802 - 160 pages
...dread brink Unapprehensive ; when, for ought we know, The very first swol'n surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not, time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream, Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...dread brink, Unapprehensive ; when, for aught we know, The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not, time hurries on With a resistless unremitting, stream, Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And... | |
 | 1806 - 184 pages
...dread brink, Unapprehensive ; when for aught we know The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not, time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream, Yet treads more soft, than e'er did midnight thief. That slides his hand under the miser's pillow,... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...brink Unapprehensive; when, for aught we know, The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in. Tliiiik we, or think we not, time hurries on With a resistless, unremitting stream; Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...dread brink Unapprehensive ; when, for aught we know, The very first swol'u surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not, time hurries on, With a resistless unremitting stream ; Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...dread brink, Unapprehensive ; when for aught we know The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in. both of books and human kind ; Gen'rous converse ja soul decmpt from pride ! An Yet treads more soft than c'erdid midnight thiel That slides hjshand under the miser's pillow, And... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...dread brink Unapprehensive ; when, for aught we know, The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not, time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream; Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 682 pages
...dread brink Unapprehensive ; when, for aught we know. The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not, Time hurries on With a resistless, unremitting stream; Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow, And... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...dread brink Unapprehensive ; when, for aught we know, The very first swol'n surge shall sweep us in. Think we, or think we not, time hurries on, With a resistless unremitting stream ; Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight-thief, That slides his hand under the miser's pillow,... | |
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