 | mrs. Alexander Fraser - 1872 - 260 pages
...that he flung carelessly aside. CHAPTER X. LA FAIM CHASSE LB LOOT HORS DU BOIS. '' 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Parry - Dissenters, Religious - 1872 - 508 pages
...the case with the speech of Aurengzebe, which has been so much applauded : — / " ' 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 Timbs - History - 1872 - 108 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 deceit," &C. This is the celebrated Sarah, who, at the age of eighty-four, When she was told she must either... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 192 pages
...may also 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 ; and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...stay here, you pass too fast away; For even at first life's taper is a snuff. DONNE. 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... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 868 pages
...miseries of life. (18) wherefore, etc., Job x. 18, 19. Life — it* illusion». — 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 ; Lice more, and... | |
 | Mrs. Kate Vaughan Jennings - Germany - 1876 - 340 pages
...Europe, and the prospect before him was naturally not one of idyllic calm. CHAPTER VIII. 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... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - Apologetics - 1877 - 476 pages
...they clearly see the benefit of what they call the " lies " and " cheats " of life : " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat : Yet fool'd with hope men favour the deceit, Trust on, and hope to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day, Lies worse ; and,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale. POPE, Essay on Man. — When I cousider 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 ;... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pages
...arts, In ambush layabout thy flowing tongue.— Blair. Apocynum (Dog's bane) Deceit. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit.— Dryden. Apricot Doubt. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win. Shahespeare.... | |
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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. 
