 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern. 1. MATTHEW ABNOLD — Morality. St. 2. hia conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - English poetry - 1897 - 382 pages
...1651 (written about 1625?). It has been ascribed also to Raleigh, Donne, and others. HTHE world 'sa bubble, and the life of man Less than a span; In his...wretched, from the womb, So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust But... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...aged man his right To be your beadsman now that was your knight. George Peek [iss8?-is97?l THE WORLD THE World's a bubble, and the life of Man Less than...wretched, — from the womb, So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust,... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - Literature - 1918 - 436 pages
...e'er she be, That not impossible She That shall command my heart and me ". Bacon wrote poetry — ' The World's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span ' ; and Marlowe — ' Come live with me, and be ray love ' ; and Sir Walter Raleigh, and even Queen... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 848 pages
...accredited verse, 'A Translation of Certain Psalms into English Verse' (1624). A poem on 'The World,'— "The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span," — is sometimes ascribed to him, but is of doubtful authorship. See ESSAYS OF BACON. Bibliography.... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...the exploded theory that Lord Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's plays) as follows : — " The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man Less than a span." William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585-1649), likewise compares human life to a bubble : — " This... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1921 - 168 pages
...image of my death." 77. This Life which seems so fair WE may compare the lines attributed to Bacon, " The World's a bubble ; and the life of Man Less than a span" (Golden Pomp, ccxcix.), paraphrased from a Greek epigram by Posidippus ; the last stanza of Herrick's... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...P. 321. (Ed. 1763) (See also JOHNSON) 6 The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than aspan: w ꁀ C % ҉ ː L his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust,... | |
 | William Thomas Young - English poetry - 1923 - 328 pages
...star Helps Love to summon war ; Both now embracing be. G. CHAPMAN From Reliquiae Wottonianae, 1651 The World's a bubble, and the life of man Less than...conception wretched, from the womb, So to the tomb; Nurst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1906 - 832 pages
...Lyrics." In that admirably chosen anthology figure Lord Bacon's meditative stanzas beginning: The worid's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span ; In...conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Cursed from his cradie, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who. then, to frail mortality... | |
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The world's a bubble and the Life of Man Less than a span In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but... 
