 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...dust. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their...If wisdom's friend, her best ; if not, worst foe. Oh reconcile them! Kind experience cries, " There's nothing here, but what as nothing weighs : " The... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1813 - 324 pages
...Hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heav'n, And how they might have borne more welcomenews. Their answers form what men Experience call ; If Wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. Q reconcile them ! kind Experience cries, ' There's nothing here but what as nothing weighs ; The more... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...dust. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their...it vain; " And by success are tutor'd to despair." . : i Nor is it only thus, but must be so. Who knows not this, though grey, is still a child. Loose... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 284 pages
...dust. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore toheav'n; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their...If Wisdom's friend, her best ; if not, worst foe. ® reconcile them ! Kind Experience cries, * There's nothing here, but what as nothing weighs ; •... | |
 | Edward Young - Death - 1816 - 390 pages
...dust. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heav'n ; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form wliat men experience call ; If -wiidam's friend, her best; if not, worst foe. O reconcile them ! Kind... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...peace. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heav'n, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their...call; If Wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. ALL-SENSUAL man, because untouch'd, unseen, He looks on time as nothing. Nothing else Is truly man's;... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...messenger. " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men experience call." There can be no experience, worth the name, without communion with heaven. The worldly-wise man is... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...the sad vicissitudes of life, and to say with the poet— " There's nothing here but what as nothing The more our joy, the more we know it vain, And by success are tutor'd to despair" as well as to acknowledge that his early reJiioval from a life marked with many Irving domestic afflictions,... | |
 | 664 pages
...YEAR. Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form whatmen Experience call ; if Wisdom's friend, her best ; if not, worst foe. O reconcile them .' Kiud... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...dust. 'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to Heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their...worst foe. O reconcile them ! Kind Experience cries, " There 's nothing here, but whit as nothing weighs; The more our joy, the more we know it vain ; And... | |
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Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men Experience call ; If Wisdom's friend, her best ; -if not, worst foe. 
