 Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well twice runs his race. And in this true delight. These unbought sports, this happy state. I would not fear, nor wish, my fate; But boldly say each night, "To-morrow let my sun his beams...  The Retrospective Review.. - Page 353edited by - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 328 pages
...painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race. And in this true delight. These unbought sports, this happy state, I would not... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1874 - 370 pages
...IX. NOTTINGHAM. 1852-1862. " King of Comforts ! King of Life ! Thou hast cheered me." H. VAUGHAN. " Thus would I double my life's fading space. For he, that runs it well, twice runs his race." COWLEY. TOWARDS the end of the Pilgrim's journey, Bunyan describes his entrance upon the pleasant land... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...painted o'er -With Nature's hand, not Art's; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he...race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, this happy state, I would not fear, nor wish, my fate ; But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he that runs it well twice runs his And in this true delight, These unbought sports, this happy state, 1 would not fear, nor wish, my fate;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...painted o'er With Nature'shand, not Art's; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he...twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These untaught sports, this happy state, I would not fear, nor wish, my fate ; But boldly say each night,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...painted o'er With Nature's band, not arts ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Subine Held. ain, and that with offers of very good commission...which had other work for me to do, placed a secret av nubought sports, that happy state, I would not f ear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's; and pleasures yield Horace might envy in his Sabine field. ract-. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, this happy state, I would not fear, nor wish,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...painted o'er With Nature'shand, notArt's; andpleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he...race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, this happy state, 1 would not fear, nor wish, my fate ; But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1877 - 656 pages
...Vote ' (ie a wish or prayer), written when he was but thirteen, ends with this remarkable stanza : — Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he...And in this true delight, These, unbought sports, and happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let the sun... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 400 pages
...quce non sperabitur hora. Cowley was treading closely in the footsteps of Horace when he wrote, — "Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he...well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, . . . I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams... | |
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