 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...praise FROM THE " CASTLE OF INDOLENCE." 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,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...232, FROM ' THE CASTLE OP 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,... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...along The purer rivers flow. — id. I. 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,... | |
 | Frederick Ross - 1864 - 274 pages
...of Spencer they say to us, — 1 Oh, mortal man ! that liveth here by toil, Do not complain of this, thy hard estate ; That, like an emmet, thou must ever moil, Is the sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is reason for it, great; For though sometimes... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, English - 1868 - 416 pages
...time, alas ! Weliv'd right jollily. I. 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,... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...verses from the opening of the poem : " O mortal man, who livcst 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 Ihy star,... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - Quotations - 1870 - 256 pages
...of my past days. LORD CHESTERFIELD. 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,... | |
 | Harry Longueville Jones - English essays - 1870 - 534 pages
...some of their concomitant faults : — 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 tho' sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star,... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...229• 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...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,... 
