 For when to future years thou extend'st thy cares, Thou deal'st in other men's affairs. Ev'n aged men, as if they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant...  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 501841Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 290 pages
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grashoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! Of power and honour the deceitful... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel thev design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grashoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! THE SHORTNESS OF LIEE, 4-c.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 284 pages
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare; Provisions for long travel thev design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...winter hoards The stock, which summer's wealth- affords t Of power and honour the deceitful light Might half excuse our cheated sight, If it of life the whole... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! Of power and honour the deceitful light Might... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 424 pages
...is their example; and they do well to drudge and save, in imitation of his diligence and patsimony. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords. I, as a poet, have my example in the heavenly lark (for the animal world has its poets as well as drudges)... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 268 pages
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...stock, which summer's wealth affords ; In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! Of power and honour the deceitful light Might... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 246 pages
...they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against...stock, which summer's wealth affords ; In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! Of power and honour the deceitful light Might... | |
 | Alain René Le Sage - 1822 - 356 pages
...An instant afterwards, my ear was soothed with the sound of the same instrument, and the same voice. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock which summer's wealth affords; In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ? Of love or fortune the deceitful light Might... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 pages
...for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line, 8. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! 9. Of power and honour the deceitful light... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line, 8. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock, which summer's wealth affords : In grasshoppers, that must at autumn die, How vain were such an industry ! 9. Of power and honour the deceitful light... | |
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