 The fleeting course of fast-declining life : There heard we him with broke and hollow plaint Rue with himself his end approaching fast, And all for nought his wretched mind torment With sweet remembrance of his pleasures past. And fresh delights of lusty...  Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry - Page 91by Henry Headley - 1810Full view - About this book
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1877 - 560 pages
...had untwined His vital thread, and ended with their knife The fleeting course of fast-declining life. There heard we him, with broke and hollow plaint,...himself his end approaching fast, And all for nought hig wretched mind torment With sweet remembrance of his pleasures past, And fresh delights of lusty... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...had untwin'd His vital thread, and ended with their knife The fleeting course of fast declining life. There heard we him with broke and hollow plaint Rue...he sob and shriek ! And to be young again of Jove beseek.t But, and I the cruel fates so fixed be, That time forepast cannot return again. This one request... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...knife The fleeting course of fust declining life : There heard we him with broken and hollow plaint Kue with himself his end approaching fast, And all for...pleasures past, And fresh delights of lusty youth fore waste ; Recounting which, how would he sob and shriek, Arid to be young again of Jove beseek I... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1880 - 558 pages
...sweet remembrance of his pleasures past, And fresh delights of lusty youth forewaste; [utterly wasted Recounting which, how would he sob and shriek, And to be young again of Jove beseek ! Bat, an the cruel fates so fixed he [$ That time forepast cannot return again, This one request of... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...untwined His vital thread, and ended with their knife The fleeting course of fast declining life : There heard we him with broke and hollow plaint. Rue...pleasures past. And fresh delights of lusty youth f orewaste ; Recounting which, how would he sob and shriek, And to be young again of Jove beseek! That... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...knife The fleeting course of fast declining life. There heard we him with broke and hollow plaint Eue with himself his end approaching fast, And all for...past, And fresh delights of lusty youth forewast. Becounting which, how would he sob and shriek ! And to be young again of Jove beseek.t But, and | the... | |
 | 1896 - 252 pages
...knife The fleeting course of fast declining life. There heard we him with broken and hollow plaint Rew with- himself his end approaching fast ; And all for...pleasures past. And fresh delights of lusty youth forwaste. Recounting which, how would he sob and shriek, And to be young again of Jove beseek. But... | |
 | 1896 - 344 pages
...mind torment With sweet remembrance of his pleasures past. And fresh delights of lusty youth forwaste. Recounting which, how would he sob and shriek, And...beseek. But and the cruel fates so fixed be That time forpast cannot return again, This one request of Jove yet prayed he ; That in such withered plight... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1896 - 252 pages
...fleeting course of fast declining life. There heard we him with broken and hollow plaint Rew with himsetf his end approaching fast ; And all for nought his...pleasures past, And fresh delights of lusty youth forwaste. Recounting which, how would he sob and shriek, And to be young again of Jove beseek. But... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Bible - 1897 - 258 pages
...fleeting course of fast declining life. ill. There heard we him with broken and hollow plaint IA \, Rao with himself his end approaching fast ; ' :. And all...pleasures past. And fresh delights of lusty youth forwaste. Recounting which, how would he sob and shriek, And to be young again of Jove beseek. But... | |
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