 Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave,...  The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Page 159de Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 145 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...contemplated her fate — that fate, to be an old maid. CHAPTER XIII. Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
 | 412 pages
...which breathe a spirit of the most unshaken fortitude, end thus, — " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - 530 pages
...Even such is Time, that takes on trust, Our youib, our joys, or all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered 8)1 our ways, Shuts up the Etory of our days !* He has added two other lines expressive of his trust... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1846 - 384 pages
...to his devotions, wrote on a blank leaf of his Bible these lines : Kven such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us with but age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...such is Time, that ukes on trust Our youth, our joys, our oil we have, And pays us but with age nutl dust ; Who,' in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered till our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ! ' He has added two other lines, expressive of his trust... | |
 | Timothy Dwight Sprague - 1847 - 408 pages
...joys, our all we have. And pays us but with age and dust : Who in the dark and silent grave, Where we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, The Lord shall raise me up, 1 trust." A little before nine o'clock, Friday, Oct. 29, 1618, he... | |
 | 1847 - 178 pages
...thee who will, No stab the soul can kill! The night before his Death. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have xvandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
 | William Goodman - 1847 - 376 pages
...the same error that deludes them all." HORACE. ALMANACS. " Even such is Time, that takes oil tract, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our days, Shuts up the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...composed the following verses in prospect of death : — i Even such is Time, that takes on trust Oar age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave. When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 450 pages
...remembered the dying melody of Raleigh : — Even such is Time ; who takes in trust Our youth, our joya, and all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ;...our ways, Shuts up the story of our days : But from that earth, that grave and dust, The Lord thatt raise me up, I trutt. These lines express the resignation... | |
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