 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? , — Clarendon. TT is not the quantity of the Meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which... | |
 | John Milton - Illustration of books - 1858 - 106 pages
...over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or if they be but false alarms of fear, How hitter is such self-delusion ! I do not think my... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...over-exquisite To east the fashion of uneertain evils ; 360 For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is sueh self-delusion ! I do not think my... | |
 | Caroline M. Mersereau - Amusements - 1860 - 370 pages
...see its close ; Something attempted, something done, Will earn a night's repose. Longfellow. G. — Why need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Milton. L. — Many philosophers imagine that the elements themselves may be in time exhausted... | |
 | Walter White - Great Britain - 1860 - 488 pages
...over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, \Vli.-it, need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is sucli self-delusion ! " The contrast... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : 360 For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion ! 365 I do not think... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pages
...new day ! Let beauty's glance Engage thee, and the merry dance, Nor deem such pleasures vain ! ' What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he should most avoid ? MILTON'S Corma, 362. Gloom is for age. Young hearts should glow With fancies bright... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Or if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion ? I do not think my... | |
 | John Milton - 1863 - 140 pages
...over.exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : 360 For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? Or if they be but false alarms of Fear, How bitter is such self.delusion? I do not think my... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1863 - 140 pages
...over.exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : 360 For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? Or if they be but false alarms of Fear, How bitter is such self.delusion? I do not think my... | |
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For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? 
