 For when to future years thou extend'st thy cares, Thou deal'st in other men's affairs. Ev'n aged men, as if they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant...  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Seite 501841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 Seiten
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grashoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! Of power and honour the deceitful... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 Seiten
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel thev design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grashoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! THE SHORTNESS OF LIEE, 4-c.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 284 Seiten
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare; Provisions for long travel thev design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...winter hoards The stock, which summer's wealth- affords t Of power and honour the deceitful light Might half excuse our cheated sight, If it of life the whole... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! Of power and honour the deceitful light Might... | |
 | 1821 - 424 Seiten
...is their example; and they do well to drudge and save, in imitation of his diligence and patsimony. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords. I, as a poet, have my example in the heavenly lark (for the animal world has its poets as well as drudges)... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 Seiten
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...stock, which summer's wealth affords ; In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! Of power and honour the deceitful light Might... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 246 Seiten
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...stock, which summer's wealth affords ; In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! Of power and honour the deceitful light Might... | |
 | Alain René Le Sage - 1822 - 356 Seiten
...An instant afterwards, my ear was soothed with the sound of the same instrument, and the same voice. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock which summer's wealth affords; In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ? Of love or fortune the deceitful light Might... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 Seiten
...for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line, 8. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! 9. Of power and honour the deceitful light... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 Seiten
...for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line, 8. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! 9. Of power and honour the deceitful light... | |
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