 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Fort Francis E. Warren (Wyo.) - 1910 - 604 pages
...commenced singing7 in my way, whatever happened to occur to me. This morning I began Moore's hymn: This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion...deceitful flow — There's nothing true but Heaven! The very unmusical noise I made, or something else, seemed to excite much astonishment in the guard... | |
 | Charles Sumner Nutter, Wilbur Fisk Tillett - Hymn writers - 1911 - 630 pages
...following verses by the author are written In the same strain, and are much admired: This world la all a fleeting show, For man's Illusion given ; The...tomb — There's nothing bright but Heaven ! Poor wand'rers of a stormy day. From wave to wave we're driven. And Fancy's flash and Reason's ray Serve... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...ambition, fame, Fighting, devotion, dust, — perhaps a name. 5877 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 4 This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion...deceitful flow — There's nothing true but Heaven. 5878 ~ Moore : This World is all a Fleeting Show The world is a great poem, and the world's The words... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...ambition, fame, Fighting, devotion, dust, — perhaps a name. This world is all a fleeting show, ¥<W man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears...deceitful flow — There's nothing true but Heaven. 5878 " Moore : This World is all a Fleeting Show The world is a great poem, and the world's The words... | |
 | A. T. Robinson - Christian ethics - 1912 - 246 pages
...refrain of the poet of the Irish melodies and wail out as some are wont to do: "There's nothing bright but Heaven, And false the light on Glory's plume As fading hues at even. And Love and Hope and Beauty's bloom Are blossoms gathered for the tomb; There's nothing bright... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1913 - 264 pages
...garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely. Shakespeare: Hamlet. This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion...deceitful flow — There's nothing true but Heaven. Fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendant world, in bigness as a star. Milton: Paradise Lost.... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - Christian education - 1913 - 244 pages
...balance your eloquence, weighed With the life and the deeds of that high-born maid ? — GERALD GRIFFIN. This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion...joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful show, — There's nothing true but Heaven. SAINT AUGUSTINE AND THE ENGLISH Nothing is known of Augustine's... | |
 | A. V. Williams - Cities and towns - 1913 - 160 pages
...Preface we find the following: "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long." "This life is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given— The smiles of joy, the tears of woe Forever shine, forever flow, There is nothing real but Heaven." James Dale Johnston published the directory... | |
 | Manual training - 1902 - 568 pages
...true education. " This world is but a fleeting show, For man's illusion given. Its smiles of joy, its tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow: There's nothing true but heaven," is its keynote. All was a preparation for the future, to such an extent that nothing was real. In some... | |
 | Sister Mary Domitilla - Readers - 1916 - 384 pages
...CHARITY. COME to me, all you that labor, and are burdened, and I will refresh you. — ST. MATT, xi, 28. THIS world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion...but heaven. And false the light on Glory's plume, As falling hues of Even; And Love, and Hope, and Beauty's bloom Are blossoms gathered for the tomb —... | |
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THIS world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven... 
