 | 384 pages
...himself. " How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, " Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year! " My hasting days fly on with full career, " But my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. " Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, " That I to mimhood am arrived so near ; '•And... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...OF 23.* How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen, on his wing, my three and twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near, And inward... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 pages
...Ver. 6. To whom Time bears me on his rapid wing,] The poet had in his memory Milton's Sonnet vii. " How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his whig my three and twentieth year To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me,... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1848 - 236 pages
...were better known to him than theirs : — " How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen, on his wing, my three-and-twentieth year, My hasting...full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I towards manhood am arrived so near, And... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...has Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hastening days fly on with full career, But my late spring no...Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to mauhood am arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear That some more timely happy... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - Missionaries - 1849 - 522 pages
...shall be hereafter, nor how long. I often feel, when I look back, as Milton did on the same occasion. " My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom ahoweth." But let them fly — " If I have grace to use them so, As ever in my great taskmaster's eye."... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...am.arriv'd so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - Evangelists - 1850 - 528 pages
...shall be hereafter, nor how long. I often feel, when I look back, as Milton did on the same occasion. " My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud ar blossom showeth." But let them fly— " If I have grace to use them so, As ever in my great taskmaster's... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...UK ING ARRIVED TO THB AQB OF TWENTY-THREE. "' How soon hath Time, the snbtle thief of yonth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with fnll eareer, Bnt my late spring no bnd or blossom show'th. Perhaps my semblanee might deeeive the trnth,... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...follows: — How soon has Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career ; But my late Spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward... | |
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. 
