 What is every year of a wise man's life but a censure or critic on the past ? Those whose date is the shortest, live long enough to laugh at one half of it ; the boy despises the infant, the man the boy, the philosopher both, and the Christian all.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq - Page 132de Alexander Pope - 1797 - 3650 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alexander Pope - 1737 - 280 pages
...year of a wife man's life but a cenfure or critique on the paft ? Thofe whofe date is the fhorteft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it: the boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the philofopherboth, and the chriftian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1737 - 382 pages
...man's life but a cenfure or critique on the paft ? Thofe whofe date is the fhorteft, live, long-enough to laugh at one half of it: the boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the philofoper both, and the chriftian all. You may how begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 330 pages
...every year of a wife man's life but a cenfure or critic on the paft ? Thofe whofe date is the morteft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the...puerility ; and you'll never fuffer your age to be but afecond infancy. The toys and baubles of your childhood are hardly now more below you, than thofe toys... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1754 - 590 pages
...Year of a wife Man's Life but a Ccnfure or Critique on the paft ? Thofe whofe Date is the fhorteft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : The...Infant, the Man the Boy, the Philofopher both, and the Chiiftian all. You may now begin to think your Manhood was too much a Puerility; and you'll never fuffer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 274 pages
...year of a wife man's life but a cenfure or critic on the paft? Thofe whofe date is the fhorteft,live long enough to laugh at one half of it: the boy defpifes...infant, the man the boy, the philofopher both, and the Chritfian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you'll I 2 never... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 270 pages
...every year of a wife man's life but a cenfure or critic on the paft ? Thofe whofe date is the fhorteil, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the...all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too nrjdi 'a puerility ; and vou'l' 1 z never fuffer your age to be but a fecond infancy. The toys and... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 606 pages
...Year of a wife Man's Life but a Cenfure or Critique on the paft ? Thofe whofe Date is the fhortcft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : The Boy defpifcs the Infant, the Man the Boy, the Philofopher both, and the Chriftian all. You may now begin... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1764 - 440 pages
...every year of a wife man's life but a cenfure or critic on the paft ? Thofe whole date is the fhorteft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it: the boy...Chriftian all. You may now begin to think your manhood *as too much a puerility ; and you'll never fuffer your age to be but a fecond infancy. The toys and... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pages
...fr.iitus illafaatur orbis Impavidum ferient ruin;e. HORAT. Od. lib. iii, od. 3. «' date is the fhorteft, live long enough to laugh " at one half of it : the...boy, the Philofopher both, and " the Chriftian all f." I fhall add to thefe examples a pafsage from Dr AK.ENSIDE, of which it may be faid, That ev'ry... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 402 pages
...every year of a wife man's life but a cenfure or critic on the paft ? Thofe whofe date is the fhorteft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the...infant, the man the boy, the philofopher both, and the Chriflian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you'll never... | |
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