 EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this...  Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes - Página 1201856Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1851 - 496 páginas
...RALEIGH. Bonx, 1552; DIED, 1618. LINES COMPOSED THE XIGHT BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, IX PBOSPECT OF DEATH. E'EN such is time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And paj-s us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 páginas
...the last night he spent in this room, or in the world, he wrote on a blank leaf of his Bible :— " Even such is Time, that takes on trust , Our youth, our joys, our all we hare, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 páginas
...down to compose those verses on his death, which being short, the most appropriate may be repeated. 1 Even such is Time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys, or all we have, And pays us but with age and (lust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1852 - 316 páginas
...grave." — Dyer. The night before his execution he wrote the following lines in a leaf of the Bible: " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth,...dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." Russel, Sydney, Shaftesbury, Buckingham, Laud,... | |
 | William Wells Brown, William Farmer - 1852 - 354 páginas
...himself a short time before his death : — " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth, our joy, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." Spears, battle-axes, pikes, helmets, targets, bows and arrows, and many instruments of torture, whose... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1852 - 610 páginas
...lines were found traop.d — his last on earth : " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our life, our joys, our all we have. And pays us but with age and dust ; Then in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days.... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 páginas
...passed out of the world. After his death were found these verses, written the night before : — " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth,...dark and silent grave. When we have wandered all our waya, Shuts up the atory of our days." There are no details to supply a delineation of Raleigh's daily... | |
 | 1853 - 446 páginas
...veriest pity then ! LINES WRITTEN BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH IN HIS BIBLE BEFORE ASCENDING THE SCAFFOLD. EVEN such is time, that takes on trust Our youth,...dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wnnder'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days : But from this earth, this grave, this dust,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 páginas
...attendants the night before his execution. They are thus quoted in the Oxford edition of his works : Even such Is time, that takes on trust Our youth,...pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silen\ grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days 1 But from this earth,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 526 páginas
...the night before his execution. They are thus quoted in the Oxford edition of his works : Even Buch is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silenv grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days 1 But from this earth,... | |
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