 O MORTAL man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail,...  The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette - Seite 3361830Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...height of Indolence, And its false luxury ; Where for a little time, alas! We liv'd right jollily. ient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men I« a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great; For, tho' sometimes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...blank assistants seemed Silent to ask whom Fate would next demand. [From the 'Cattle of /ndokece.'] 0 that date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...would ueit demand. [From tie < Cattle of Indolence.'] 0 mortal man, who livest here by toil, Г)о US WRITERS. ENGLISH LITERATURE. ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND...not England, not the present age only, but Europe date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail,... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 Seiten
...justified by the use of one of our most elegant poets, Thomson, who commences his Castle of Indolence thus: O mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain...thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an ancient date. xxxvi. " With blood-red arms see Carnage, screaming hag." Todo es muerte y horror: vense hacinados... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1849 - 228 Seiten
...which the holy man used to quench his thirst. LYONS, FROM LA CROIX ROUSSE. " O mortal man, who livcst here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate...thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an ancient date : And, certM, there is for it reason great." The Castle of Indolaicr. LYONS, the Lugdunum of the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 772 Seiten
...little time, alas '. We lived right iollil y. I. O MORTAL man, who livest here by toil, Do not eomplain of this thy hard estate: That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentenee of an aneient date; And, eertes, there is for it reason great; For, though sometimes it makes... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 Seiten
...the wurdi of his favourite poet : О mortal man, that livest here by toil, Cease to repine and grudge thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a ead sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; Although sometimes it... | |
 | Sir John Forbes - 1850 - 92 Seiten
...'n^it irxtra rayafl' '01 ©so/. — EPICHAKM. Nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus.— HORAT. O mortal man who livest here by toil, Do not complain...emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an antient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For though sometimes it makes thee weep... | |
 | 1850 - 634 Seiten
...better conclude this article than in the language of the author of " The Castle of Indolence " : — " O mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain...estate, That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is the sad sentence of an ancient date ; And certes there is for it reason great, For though sometimes... | |
 | James Thomson - 1850 - 800 Seiten
...little time, alas ' We liwd rigntjolllly. I. O MOETAL man, who livest here by toil, Do not eomplain of this thy hard estate : That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentenee of an aneient date ; And, eertes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it... | |
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