 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...praise FROM THE "CASTLE OF INDOLKNCB." O mortal man, who lives! here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever...Is a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star,... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...of Richmond. THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. O mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever...Is a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And certes there is for it reason great ; For though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...little time, alas! We liv'd right jollily. OMOKTAL man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That, like an emmet, thou must ever...Is a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...come, FROM THE " CASTLE OF INDOLENCE." O mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an ancient date j And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...praise FROM THE "CASTLE OF INDOLENCE." 0 mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever...Is a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star,... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - Bible - 1861 - 294 pages
...than vanity !" CHAPTER XV. LABOUK. u Oh mortal man who livest here by toil, Do not. complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever...Is a sad sentence of an ancient date : And, certes, there is reason for it great ; For though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy day... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...folly thinks inevitable. "OiD PLAY." O mortal man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate; That like an emmet thou must ever...Is a sad sentence of an ancient date; And, certes, there is for it reason great; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star,... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...lived right jollUy. I. O MORTAL man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hardTsTate; That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an ancient date; And, certes, there is for it reason great; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...time, alas ! We lived right jollily. 1. 0 MORTAL man ! who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever...Is a sad sentence of an ancient date : And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail And curse thy star,... | |
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MORTAL man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail,... 
