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" For any length of days in such a pickle. To strive, too, with our fate were such a strife As if the corn-sheaf should oppose the sickle : Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. "
Regimental Coventry; as it is at present acted upon in the British army - Page 240
by James Connell (army surgeon.) - 1837
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The Magazine of Poetry, Volume 4

1892 - 524 pages
...wind shifts, shift our sails. BYRON, Don Juan. "Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore. IBID. Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. IBID. Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. IBID, A Skelch. I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on...
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Egypt To-day: The First to the Third Khedive

William Fraser Rae - 1892 - 348 pages
...recur to the mind as containing a possible explanation, though they do not really explain anything : " Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." The last lesson which statesmen learn is that they have but an imperfect, if any, control over the...
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Egypt To-day: The First to the Third Khedive

William Fraser Rae - 1892 - 346 pages
...recur to the mind as containing a possible explanation, though they do not really explain anything : " Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." The last lesson which statesmen learn is that they have but an imperfect, if any, control over the...
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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 4

1892 - 520 pages
...die, make love, and pay our taxes, And, as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails. BYRON, Don Juan. Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. IBID. There comes Forever something between us and what We deem our happiness. IBID, Sardanapalus....
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A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington

Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1893 - 486 pages
...to them : therefore I am always lenient to crimes that have brought their own punishment, while * " Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." Don Juan, Canto V., stanza xvil I am little disposed to pity those who think they atone for their own sins by...
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Aunt Johnnie: A Novel

John Strange Winter - 1893 - 338 pages
...before? 1 know his face perfectly well; where can I have seen him before ? " CHAPTER IV. A REAL MAN. 11 Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." THE strange young man jumped into the carriage so unexpectedly that Meg had no time for more than a...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopędia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...suit his temper ; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. — Hume. Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men. — Byron. When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated...
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The Stenographer, Volumes 8-9

1895 - 406 pages
...as to being "creatures of circumstances. ' ' Ah, they can develop the mastery of centerstances ! " Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." — Hyron. Their start of reform is to realize that there is too much of providential dignity in circumstances...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

1896 - 1224 pages
...circumstance And impulse — borne away with every breath! 1. BYRON — Sardanapalus. Act IV. Sc. 1. Bk. 23. L. 382. Pope's trans. Piety in art — poetry in art— Puseyism in art m. BYRON — Don Juan. Canto V. St. 17. Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own. n. COWPEH...
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Dictionary of Quotations: (English)

Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...their miserable selves even with religion." KENELM DIGBY. The Broad Stone of Honour, Tancredus, V. " Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men." BYRON. Don Juan, Can. V., St. 17. Vide — " Man, without religion." " Men are valued not for what...
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