 tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage!...  Dryden - Page 59by George Saintsbury - 1902 - 196 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Davies - 1784 - 524 lehte
...dregs of life hope to receive , What the firft fprightly runnings cannot give. I'm tir'd with waking for this chemic gold, Which fools us young and beggars us when old ! In the judgement of Addifon,* thefe are the bed lines in the play. But the re* Spectator. ply of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 lehte
...With some new joys, cuts off what we posscst. Strange cozenage ! none would live past years ag»in> Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And from...gold. Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. Nor is the answer of Nourmahal inferior in beauty : JVour. 'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 430 lehte
...way, Great offices, with greater, to repay. Aur. When 1 consider life, 'tis all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think...gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. Nour. 'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue ; It pays our hopes with something still that's new... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 430 lehte
...shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. i . Strange cozenage ! none would lire past years again, , . .• : Yet all hope pleasure...gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. Nor is the answer of Nourmahal inferior in beauty : •! Nonr. 'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue... | |
 | Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough - 1838 - 512 lehte
...all hope pleasure in what still remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the fresh sprightly running could not give. I'm tired with waiting...gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old." Verses of Dryden, which I think very pretty, and which most people have felt the truth of. 1737-8.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 lehte
...And from the dregs of life think to receive What the fresh sprightly running could not give : I 'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old :' — Verses of Dryden, which I think very pretty, and which most people have felt the truth of. I... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 526 lehte
...And from the dregs of life think to receive What the fresh sprightly running could not give : I 'in tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old :' — Verses of Dryden, which I think very pretty, and which most people have felt the truth of. I... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 lehte
...from the dregs of life think to receive What the fresh sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old." This is the celebrated Sarah, who, at the age of eightyfour, when she was told she must either submit... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 580 lehte
...from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. MOU8QUETAIRE COLLAR PATTERN, BY MRS. PDLLAN THE WORK-TABLE FRIEND. MOUSQUETAIRE COLLAR. Materials.—... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 lehte
...think to-morrow will repay, To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and while it sajs we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what...gold Which fools us young and beggars us when old.* But in his strong religious faith, he had that consolation which the preceding laureate and his good... | |
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