...Finally, Byron : — " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, Tis something better not to be " Baltazar Gracian also brings the misery of our existence before our eyes in the darkest colours in...

...and living woe I '"Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen. Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, Tis something better not to be. * 'Nay, for myself, so dark my fate Through every turn of life hath been, Man and the toorld so much...

...Finally, Byron : — " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, "Tis something better not to be " Baltazar Gracian also brings the misery of our existence before our eyes in the darkest colours in...

...more." Campbell : "Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen. Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been 'Tis something better not to be." Dryden : "When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet fooled wilh hope, men favor the deceit; Trust...

...Or, again : — " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, "Tis something better not to be." One has only to let one's memory begin to fetch passages from Byron striking the same note as that...

...Byron repeats the sentiment in that verse of despair, — " Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, • 'Tis something better not to be." D'Alembert speaks of the " malheur d'etre." Voltaire gives it as the result of eighty years' experience,...

...his poetry: — " Count o'er the joys tlu'ne hours have seen, Count o'er the days from anguish free ; And know, whatever thou hast been, "Tis something better not to be." The whole of his poetry, indeed, continued to bear the impress of his morbid spirit. " Never had any...

...in four lines : " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be." All this is implied in Mr. living's impersonation. He never misses the subtlety of the character. The...

...life and living woe. Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, Tis something better not to be. AND THOU ART DEAD, AS YOUNG AND FAIR. AND thou art dead, as young and fair, As aught of mortal birth...

...poet's advice : — " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, Tis something better — not to be." The Sphinsfs Riddle. 105 But here the question naturally arises, how is this annihilation to be accomplished...