 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 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... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...away on my worthy friend, who, I fancy, must be what is called a Philistine, 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 on ;... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...away on my worthy friend, who, I fancy, must be what is called a Philistine. 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 on ;... | |
 | Joseph Hatton - 1880 - 326 pages
...brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. COWPEE. 141 CHAPTER I. WEDDED, NOT MATED. 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 ;... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...his future Hours, Which starve on orts, and glean their former field. . — 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, and,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...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 while... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Fiction - 1887 - 216 pages
...Bible in the Gate-House at Westminster. Poems of Raleigh, ed. by J. Hannah, p. 54. ' 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 - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 460 pages
...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 ;... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1890 - 450 pages
...you these fine verses of Mr. Dryden, and give you a whole month to get them by heart. When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet fool'd with hope, Men favour the deceit, Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay, Tomorrow's falser than the former day; Lyes worse, and when... | |
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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. 
