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" O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing! His youth gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing; Beauty, strength, youth are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love are roots, and ever green. His helmet... "
The Works of George Peele - Page 302
by George Peele - 1888
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La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays ...

Thomas Oliphant - Ballads, English - 1837 - 376 pages
...spurn'd in vain — youth waneth by encreasing. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers that fading been ; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His...now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' sonnets turn to holy Psalms : A man-at-arms must now sit on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's...
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Songs from the Dramatists

Robert Bell - English drama - 1854 - 290 pages
...His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain ; youth waneth by encreasing. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen....helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man at arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which...
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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, Volume 2

William Makepeace Thackeray - Domestic fiction - 1855 - 444 pages
...Hia youth "gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain ; youth waneth by encreasing. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen....helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms; A man at anus must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which...
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The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, Volume 1

William Makepeace Thackeray - Families - 1855 - 428 pages
...incivaxing. lïeauty. strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen. Duty, failli, love, are root«, and ever green. "His helmet now shall make a hive for bees. And lovera' songs be turned to holy psalms ; Л man at arms must now serve on his knees. And feed on prayers,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1856 - 730 pages
...too swift, 0 swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain ; youth waneth by increasing. Beauty, strength,...helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4

Great Britain - 1857 - 588 pages
...behind the labouring oar — The laggard soul expires without a name. — Dante. INNBE AND OUTEB. — Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers, but fading seen ; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. — JS. Peele. EABNESTNESS. — Better far Pursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime...
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Essays on the Drama

William Bodham Donne - Drama - 1858 - 296 pages
...His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spumed, But spurned in vain ; youth waneth by encreasing. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen...helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which...
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Essays on the Drama

William Bodham Donne - Drama - 1858 - 270 pages
...youth waneth by enoreasing. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen : Duty, faith, lore, are roots, and ever green. " His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which...
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The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele

Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce, George Peele - English drama - 1861 - 650 pages
...SONNET.* His golden locks time hath to silver turn'd ; 0 time too swift, 0 swiftness never ceasing I His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurn'd,...strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, failli, love, are roots, and ever green. * We lave seen (p. 507) that Segar has this Sonnet vrith several...
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Poems of Old Age

Old age in literature - 1861 - 144 pages
...spurned, But spumed iu vain ; youth waneth by increasing. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading1 seen ; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green....helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which...
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