 | 708 pages
...cannot testify our approbation in a more effective manner than by transferring them to our pages. " 'Tis a stern and startling thing to think How often...grave without any misgiving : And yet in this slippery woild of strife, In the stir of human bustle so rife, There are daily sounds to tell us that Life Is... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...moment had sworn to be The Golden Leg's sole Legatee, And that very night to administer ! Beats. 'T is a stern and startling thing to think How often mortality...strife, In the stir of human bustle so rife There arc daily sounds to tell us that Life Is dying, and Death is living ! Ay, Beauty the girl, and Love... | |
 | Anna Rebecca Tregelles - 1858 - 190 pages
...to spend the brief remainder of a wasted life amongst his friends. CHAPTER XIV. ' Tis a stern and a startling thing to think How often mortality stands...on the brink Of its grave, without any misgiving.' HOOD. SHE timekeeper fills a very responsible posi tion on the work. His report of the men's ' time'... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...near the grave we may be at this very moment— one step more may land us in eternity. " 'T is a stem and startling thing to think How often mortality stands...strife, In the stir of human bustle so rife, There arc daily sounds to tell us that Life Is dying, and Death is living." We should at all times so live,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...and a show. •I .knxim. Van. Hum. Wisliee, 317. 'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think How oft mortality stands on the brink Of its grave without...rife, There are daily sounds to tell us that life la dying, and death is living ! Hood, Miss Kilmanstgg. MOBTALITY — continued. Read, yc that run,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 472 pages
...be The Golden Leg's sole Legatee, And that very night to administer ! VOL. vii. 29 HER DEATH. 'Tie a stern and startling thing to think How often mortality stands on the brink Of ita grave without any misgiving : And yet in this slippery world of strife, In the stir of human bustle... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1873 - 524 pages
...moment had sworn to be The Golden Leg's sole Legatee, And that very night to administer ! HER DEATH. 'Tis a stern and startling thing to think How often...yet in this slippery world of strife, In the stir ol human bustle so rife, There are daily sounds to tell us that Life Is dying, and Death is living... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1876 - 618 pages
...moment had sworn to be The Golden Leg's sole Legatee, And that very night to administer I HER DEATH. 'TIS a stern and startling thing to think How often mortality stands on the brink In the stir of human bustle so rife, There are daily sounds to tell us that Life Is dying, and Death... | |
 | James Platt - 1881 - 226 pages
...— balmy sleep ! Sleep, gentle sleep, — that brief but daily reminder of our long "last sleep." 'Tis a stern and startling thing to think How often;...its grave without any misgiving ; And yet in this stifling world of strife, In the stir of human bustle so rife, There are daily sounds to tell us that... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...think all men mortal but themselves. 3361 Young : Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 424. 'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think How often mortality stands...strife, In the stir of human bustle so rife, There arc daily sounds to tell us that Life Is dying, and Death is living ! 3362 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg :... | |
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Tis a stern and startling thing to think How often mortality stands on the brink Of its grave without any misgiving... 
