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" And what is Life ? — An hour-glass on the run, A mist, retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated dream, — Its length ? — A minute's pause, a moment's thought. And happiness ? — A bubble on the stream, That in the act of... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 169
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 2

1820 - 544 pages
...unworthy of Drummond, or of Cowley.' ' And what is Life? — An hour-glass on the run, A mist, retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated...dream, — Its length?— A minute's pause, a moment's though. And happiness? — A bubble on the stream, That in the act of seizing shrinks to nought. And...
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The Literary chronicle and weekly review, Volume 2, Issues 33-83

1820 - 856 pages
...An hour-glass on the run, .A mist retreating froln the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still repeated dream ; Its length ? — A minute's pause, a moment's...stream, That in the act of seizing shrinks to nought. What are vain hopes ?— The puffing gale of morn That of its charms divests the dewy lawn, And robs...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 23

1820 - 632 pages
...unworthy of Drummond, or of Cowley. ' And what is Life ? — An hour-glass on the run, A mist, retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated...Hope ? — the puffing gale of morn, That robs each flowret of its gem, — and dies ; A cobweb, hiding disappointment's thorn, Which stings more keenly...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 23

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...unworthy of Drummond, or of Cowley. 1 And what is Life ?—An hour-glass on the run, A mist, reatreatino from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated...the act of seizing shrinks to nought. And what is Hope?—the puffing gale of morn, That robs each floweret of its pern,—and dies; A cobweb, hiding...
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Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery

John Clare - Country life - 1820 - 264 pages
...An hour-glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still repeated dream ; Its length? — A minute's pause, a moment's...stream, That in the act of seizing shrinks to nought. What are vain Hopes ? — The puffing gale of morn, That of its charms divests the dewy lawn, And robs...
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The Englishman's fire-side

492 pages
...— An hour-glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, Abusy, bustling, still repeated dream.—- Its length? — A minute's pause, a moment's...stream, That in the act of seizing shrinks to nought. What is vain Hope > — The puffi ig gale of morn That, of its charms divests the dewy lawn, And robs...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...still-repeated dream, — Its length? — A minute's pause, a moment'* thought. And Happiness? — A babble on the stream, That in the act of seizing shrinks...That robs each floweret of its gem, — and dies ; A cobweh, hiding disappointment's thorn, Which stings more keenly through the thin disguise. And what...
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The American Masonic Register, and Ladies' and Gentlemen's Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1821 - 780 pages
...pause, a moment's thought: And happiness ?—n bubble on the stream, That in the act of seizing sinks to nought. " And what is hope ?—the puffing gale of morn, That robs each How'fet of its gem—and dies, A eob-wcb, biding disappointment's thorn, Which stings more keenly through...
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Life, or, Fashion and feeling

Mary Ann Hedge - 1822 - 1016 pages
...see nothing but confusion. NECKAR. And what is life ? an hoar.glass on the run ; A mist retreating from the morning sun; A busy bustling still-repeated...moment's thought; And happiness? a bubble on the stream Tbat in the act of seizing shrinks to nought. CLARE. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR AK NEWMAN AND CO....
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...of such love. WHAT 18 LIFE ? ANON. AND what is life?—An hour-glass on the run, A mist, retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated...Hope ?—the puffing gale of morn, That robs each flow'ret of its gem,—and dies; A cobweb, hiding disappointment's thorn, Which stings more keenly...
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