He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
E'en such is time! which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have; And pays u-s naught but age and dust, Which, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. And from which grave, and earth, and dust, The Lord will raise me up, I trust. Sib Walter Raleigh. Written in his Bible. Cayley's Life of Raleigh. Vol. II. Ch. IX. </poem>
Hour after hour departs,
Recklessly flying;
The golden time of our hearts
Is fast a-dying:
O, how soon it will have faded!
Joy droops, with forehead shaded;
And Memory starts.
John Hamilton Reynolds—Hour After
Hour.
Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
Shall drift across the darkened pane!
C. G. D. Roberts—The Unsleeping.
By many a temple half as old as Time.
Samuel Rogers—Italy.
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| text = <poem>Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit!
How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
Saurlnt—Blanche et Guiscard. V. 5.
Tag wird es auf die dickste Nacht, und, kommt
Die Zeit, so reifen auch die spat'sten Friichte.
Day follows on the murkiest night, and,
when the timecomes,the latest fruits will ripen.
Schiller—Die Jungfrau von Orleans. III. 2.
.
9 O, wer weiss
Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde sclilummert.
Who knows what may be slumbering in the
background of time!
Schiller—Don Carlos. I. 1. 44.
Time flies on restless pinions—constant never.
Be constant—and thou chainest time forever.
Schiller—Epigram.
Spat kommt ihr—doch ihr kommt!
You come late, yet you come!
Schiller—Piccolamini. I. 1. 1.
Dreifach ist der Schritt der Zeit:
Zogernd kommt die Zukunft hergezogen,
Pfeilschnell ist das Jetzt entflogen,
Ewig still sloht die Vorgangenheit.
Threefold (lie stride of Time, from first to last:
Loitering slow, the Future creejx>th—
Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth—
And motionless forever stands the Past.
Schiller—iSprUcke des Confucius,
Doch zittre vor der langsamen,
Der stillen Macht der Zeit.
Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
Schiller—Wallenstein's Tod. I. 3. 32.
Upon my lips the breath of song,
Within my heart a rhyme,
Howe'er time trips or lags along,
I keep abreast with time!
Cltoton Scollard—The Vagrant.
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Scan^-TheLadyoftheLake. Canto III. St.l
Infinita est velocitas temporis qua? magis apparet respicientibus.
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is
still more evident to those who look back upon
the past.
Seneca—Epistoloe Ad Ducilium. XLLX.
Volat ambiguis
Mobilis alis hora.
The swift hour flies on double wings.
Seneca—Hippolytus. 1141.
Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est
malis.
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
Seneca—Medea. 292.
Urbes constituit »tas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys
them. In a moment the ashes are made, but
a forest is a long time growing.
Seneca—Q/ucestionvm Naturalium. Bk. III.
27.
Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
Nobody has ever found the gods so much
his friends that he can promise himself another day.
Seneca—Thyestes. 619.
Let's take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Steals ere we can effect them.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act V. Sc. 3. L.
39.
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And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:
Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world
wags."
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 21.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who
Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and
who he stands still withal.
.4s You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 326.
Time is the old justice that examines all such
offenders, and let Time try.
As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 203.
