 Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves, for rapine; as the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station...  The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality.. - Page 73by Edward Young - 1750 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...of right, Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles, 95 Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies ;' And... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...enclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine ; as the fox for wiles ; Till death, that mighty hunter,...all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in " here he lies," And " dust... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...inclosure. leap the mounds of right, Pursuing, and pursu'd, each others prey j 95 As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles, Till death, that mighty hunter,...all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame Earth's highest station ends in, "here he lies (A. 7s) i"... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...enclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey ; As Wolves for rapine ; as the fox for wiles ; Till death, that mighty hunter,...them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour 1 What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in ' here he lies,'... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...enclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey; As Wolves for rapine; as the fox for wiles; Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for trinmphs of an hour1 What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in... | |
 | Frederick Richard Chichester (Earl of Belfast.) - 1851 - 300 pages
...fellow, and Lady B's a dem foin woman, and it's all doosid pleasant, so long as it la-asts." CHAPTER VI. "Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What, tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, 'Here he lies ;' And ' Dust to Dust' concludes her... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 528 pages
...and 1837, relative to speculations jo land and the building of towns. 77. Hectic: Consumptive fever. Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in ' Here ho lies ;' And ' Dust... | |
 | Stephen Burroughs - Americans - 1852 - 406 pages
...enclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey ; As M'olves, for rapine ; as the fox, for wiles ; Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all." Iw order to give me some consolation for the disappointment which I had suffered, Lysander told me... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - Folklore - 1852 - 328 pages
...enclosures, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles. Till Death, that mighty hunter, earths them all." Young's Excursion. Wordsworth has the following beautiful lines on the Hermit of Derwentwater : —... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...founders of civilization. Ed. Agriculture is most favorable to independence. As wolves for rapine; as the fox, for wiles; Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. The cradle is large enough for the child, but the world cannot satisfy the man. Ambition sacrifices... | |
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