 | Edward Young, Thomas Park - 1808 - 336 pages
...madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...scene. / If not so frequent, would not this be strange^ j That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The pahu,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent wilf plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time : Year after...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. • Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are ftcd, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns...on the brink of being born : All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...madness 10 defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ! Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life ; , Still, as of old, encumber'd villany ! C'ould France § 152- MansPronencsstopospone Improvement . Of min's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " that... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is pusli'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, (Ait is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men arc about... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...eternal scheme«. As we the fatal sisters could out-spin, And, hig with life's futurities, expire. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this he strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger stilL Of man's miraculous mistakes, this hears... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time. Year after year...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live ;" For ever on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...; Thus опт till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Yrar alter year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies...leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not sg frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, ¡Ли is stranger still. Of man's... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1810 - 278 pages
...scene. notso frequent, would not this be strange J. Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears Thepahu, " That all men are about to live,'* For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On Ois reversion takes up ready... | |
 | Edward Young - 1811 - 302 pages
...out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, 14* And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns...scene. If not so frequent, would not This be strange s That 'tis so frequent, This is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm,... | |
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Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise... 
