Cette longue et cruelle maladie qu'on appele la vie.
That long and cruel malady which one calls life.
Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen.
My life is one demd horrid grind.
They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them—all porter and skittles.
"Live, while you live," the epicure would say,
"And seize the pleasures of the present day;"
"Live, while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
"And give to God each moment as it flies."
"Lord, in my views let both united be;
I live in pleasure, when I live to Thee."
Philip Doddridge—"Dum vitrimus vivamus."
Lines written under Motto of his Family
Arms.
So that my life be brave, what though not long?
Dkcmmond—Sonnet.
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
Dryden—Absalom and Achitophel. L. 168.
'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that's new.
Dryden—Aureng-Zebe. Act IV. Sc. 1.
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit.
Dryden—Aureng-Zebe. Act IV. Sc. 1.
Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;
The World's an Inn.and Deaththe journey's end.
Dryden—Palamon and Arcite. III. 887.
Take not away the life you cannot give:
For all things have an equal right to live.
Dryden—Pythagorean Phil. L. 705.
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Dryden and Lee—QEdipus. Act IV. Sc. 1.
Living from hand to mouth.
Du Bartas—Divine Weekes and Workes.
Second Week. First Day. Pt. IV.
H
A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter's day.
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.
John Dyer—Grongar Hill. L. 89.
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LIFE
A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare.
His progress through the world is trouble and
care;
And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody
knows where.
If we do well here, we shall do well there;
I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year.
John Edwin—The Eccentricities of John
Edwin (second edition). Vol. I. P. 74.
Quoted in Longefellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn. Pt. II. Student's Tale.
Life's a vast sea
That does its mighty errand without fail,
Painting in unchanged strength though waves
are changing.
George Eliot—Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.
Life is short, and time is swift;
Roses fade, and shadows shift.
Ebenezer Elliot—Epigram.
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be
poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add
a richer strain to the song.
Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Poetry
and Imagination.
When life is true to the poles of nature, the
streams of truth will roll through us in song.
Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Poetry
and Imagination.
' 20
Life's like an inn where travelers stay,
Some only breakfast and away;
Others to dinner stop, and are full fed;
The oldest only sup and go to bed.
Epitaph on tomb in Silkstone, England, to
the memory of John Ellis. (1766)
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Life's an Inn, my house will shew it;—
I thought so once, but now I know it.
Epitaphs printed by Mr. Fatrley. Epilaphiana. (Ed. 1875) On an Innkeeper at Eton.
The lines that follow are like those of
Quarles.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>This world's a city full of crooked streets,
Death's the market-place where all men meet;
If life were merchandise that men should buy,
The rich would always live, the poor might die.
Epitaph to John Gadsden, died 1739, in Stoke
Goldington, England. See E. R. Suffling
- —Epitaphia. P. 401. On P. 405 is a
Scotch version of 1689. Same idea in Gay.
The Messenger of Mortality, in Ancient
Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry.
A suggestion from Chaucer's Knight's Tale.
L. 2487. Shakespeare and Fletcher.
Two Noble Kinsmen. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 15.
Waller—Divine Poems.
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| num = | text = <poem>Nulli desperandum, quam diu spirat.
No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.) Erasmus—Colhq. Epicureus.
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