 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.—Addison. Life a Cheat. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat: Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies more, and while... | |
 | Baker Peter Smith - 1840 - 200 pages
...depart, and in which I rode to Breage, a town within a mile of the mine. CHAPTER XII. " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-murrow will repay ; To-morrow' s falser than the former day . Lyes worse;;... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric. — Addison. DCCCLIX. Life a Cheat. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat : Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies more, and... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...mirth and noble fires, Vigorous health and gay desires. COWLEY. Tlie Vanity of Life. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit, Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day, Lies worse ; and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...quote the celebrated .lines of Dryden, equally philosophical and poetical : — "When I consider li e, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repaj ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ;... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 586 pages
...day, and, to them, one fai more momentous than they were then aware of. CHAPTER XI. " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day." DRYBIN. ALTHOUGH... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shakspere. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat: Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; I/ies more, and while... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...within the control of consistency and reason. " Strange cozenage !" cries the poet, " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, " Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; " Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: " To-morrow's falser than the former day .... " Strange... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 pages
...quote the celebrated lines of Dryden, equally philosophical and poetical : — • ' When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit — Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 512 pages
...day, and, to them, one far more momentous than they were then aware of. CHAPTER XI. " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day." DRYDEN. discomfort... | |
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tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit: Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. 
