 tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.  The Enquirer: Or, Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository ... - Page 49edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...day. Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest "With some new joys, cuts off what we possess'd. Strange cozenage, none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure from what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive "What the first sprightly running could not... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...past years With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. again ; " Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; " And from the dregs of life think to receive,...What the first sprightly running could not give."' It was observed to Dr. Johnson, that it seemed strange that he, who has so often delighted his company... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...than enjoyed, in the general condition of human life ; and frequently quoted those lines of Dryden : " Strange cozenage! none would live past years • again, " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain." For his part, he said, he never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat, were an... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...than enjoyed, in the general condition of human life ; and frequently quoted those lines of Dryden : " Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again. " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain." For his part, he said, he never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat, were an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...than enjoyed, in the general condition of human life; and he often quoted these lines of Dryden: " Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain." For his part, he said, he never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat, were an... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...*e Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest " With some new joys, cuts off what we possest " Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again; " Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; . " And from the dregs of life think to receive, '* What the first sprightly running... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts oft' what we possest. Strange cozenage ! None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 746 pages
...what we pofleft. Strange coz'nage ! none would live pad year? again, Yet all hope pleafure in what yet remain ; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the firft fprightly running could not give : I'm tir'd of writing for this chemick gold, . Which fools... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...than enjoyed, in the general condition of human life; and frequently ijuoU'd those lines of Dryden : " Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again,...'• Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain." For his part, he said, he never parsed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat, were an... | |
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...than enjoyed, in the general condition of human life; and he often quoted these lines of Dryden: " Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain." For his part, he said, he never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat, were an... | |
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