 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...higher he's a-getting ; The sooner will his race be run, The nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer...former. Then be not coy ; but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. K. Herrick. XXI. Carpe... | |
 | Hannah J. Woodman - 1846 - 226 pages
...higher he 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer : But being spent the worse and worst Time shall succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy ; but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. R. Herriok. XXI. ОDarpe ИМш. CARPITE duт fas est, nec ineI>ti lusibus anni, Carpite pubentes,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; But, being spent, the worse, and worst Time shall succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the flrst, ; Time shall succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; . But, being spent, the worse, and worst Time shall succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Tune shall succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Time shall succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...is best which is the first, When youth and blood are *varmer; But, being spent, the worse and worse Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. TO MEADOWS. Ye have been... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 pages
...higher he's a getting ; The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer...former. Then be not coy, but use your time ; And while ye may, go marry : For, having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. xciv. UPON HIS GREY... | |
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Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first,... 
