 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...do gaze, " Seem dirt and dross in thy pure-sighted eye." And Milton again, in his Verses on Time : " Which is no more than what is false and vain, " And merely mortal dross." DUNSTER,. Ver. 31. Thy years &c.] Our Saviour's Temptation was soon after his Baptism ; and he was... | |
 | 1828 - 394 pages
...strengthens the faculty whereby obscurity is made plain and beauty heightened. LESSON I. On Time. FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race:; Call on...is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, And last of all thy greedy self consumed, Then long eternity shall greet our bliss With an... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...believer in Jesus, who can say, in the beautiful language of Milton — " Fly, envious Tim*, till thon rnn out thy race : Call on the lazy, leaden-stepping hours,...And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which a no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ; So little is our Ion ; So little is... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...into the mire, and shame produces that which advice has been too weak for. — Taller. DCLXXX. Fly ..envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Where speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours. Which is... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...into the mire, and shame produces that wliir.h advice has been too weak for—Taller. DCLXXX. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Where speed is but the heavy plummet's pace; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...had, when he wrote it, and nothing satisfied with what was begun, left it unfinished. ON TIME." FLY envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on...devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, s 31 a weeping] Jeremiah, ix. 10. ' For the mountains will I take up a weeping,' &c. Warton. * In Milton's... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...MILTON. O2f TIME. FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race, [hours. Call on the lazy leaden-stepping Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace; And glut...false and vain, And merely mortal dross; So little is bur loss, So little is thy gain. For when as each thing bad thou hast entombed, I And last of all thy... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...will an offspring give, t That till the world's last end shall make thy name to live. \ ON TIME. FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race; Call on...leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is i'uUo and vain, And merely... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...he wrote it, and nothing satisfied with what was begun, left u unfinished. ON TIME .' FLY, enviooS Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy...is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entombed, And last of all thy greedy self consumed, Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss With an... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...pace : And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, 5 And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So...intomb'd, And last of all thy greedy self consum'd, 10 Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss With an individual kiss ; And Joy shall overtake us as... | |
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FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ;... 
