 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 348 pages
...old age, as many have since felt, the stern reality of Dryden's celebrated lines : 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... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - English poetry - 1865 - 394 pages
...that before, Till, tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er."—ESSAY ON MAN. When I cousider life, 'tis all a cheat: Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deccit."—DRYDEN. Vieturosque Dci eelant ut vivere durent Felix esse mori."—LUCAS. ; Yonth is a... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Bookbinding - 1866 - 328 pages
...have run for. One of Dryden's heroes cries out, with a bitter disappointment : — " 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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...is a paradise To what we fear of death. Measure for Measure, Act III. Aurenge-Zebe. 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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1868 - 612 pages
...many men's experience finds an echo in the noble but saddening lines of Dryden ! ' When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, find think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1868 - 608 pages
...many men's experience finds an echo in the noble but saddening lines of Dryden ! ' 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 ;... | |
 | 1868 - 624 pages
...How many men's experience finds an echo in tho noble but saddening linos of Dryden ! '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 formtr day; * 'Loflg Livers,... | |
 | John Timbs - History - 1869 - 368 pages
...age, as many have since felt, the stern reality of Dryden's celebrated lines : — When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceitTrust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day, Lies more,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1870 - 292 pages
...teaching a child the structure of verse. The citation, a fine one, is from Dryden : " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope men favour the deceit." The reader may puzzle out the rest.] VIKTUE DISCOURAGED. — If six hundred citizens of Athens gave... | |
 | Book - Birthdays - 1872 - 326 pages
...BRYANT. A life unblest by religion is most truly what Dryden sternly describes : — 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... | |
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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. 
