 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1995 - 612 pages
...Psalm 90:9-10 (as translated in BCP): 'For when thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore... | |
 | Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer - Fiction - 1999 - 392 pages
...Bodies slanting into the room. . . . "For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told." The woman had ceased to shriek; but the Negro's bass boomed on. Tony was sure it was a black man singing... | |
 | Bible - 2003 - 322 pages
...where it begins, "Our years come to an end like a sigh." The Book of Common Prayer reads: "We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore... | |
 | Graeme Gibson - Fiction - 2003 - 276 pages
...dead in a room with open windows. . . "For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told." Do you know, bright-eyed to me from his journal, do you know who that is Felix, who? Weak words, from... | |
 | Patrick Collinson - History - 2003 - 281 pages
...tolerable by those mighty words. So 'a tale told by an idiot' derives from the Psalmist: 'We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.' Henry VI declares, 'Blessed are the peacemakers' (2 Henry VI, 1 1 .i.34), and Marcus in Titus Andronicus... | |
 | J. H. Eaton - Religion - 2003 - 558 pages
...pass away without apparent fruit or value, like a mere breath (v. 9b 'sigh / moan'; BCP 'we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told' is a wonderful translation, but not quite suiting this verse's reference to the particular situation).... | |
 | Church of England - Religion - 2005 - 496 pages
...sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For when thou art angry all our days are gone : we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - Drama - 2006 - 198 pages
...Also from Psalm 90 comes the idea of life as "a tale / Told by an idiot," in the words, "We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told." As GK Chesterton humorously remarks of this speech, "A murderer might grow cheerful, if he were able... | |
 | Arthur Kroeger - History - 2007 - 294 pages
...brought a palpable sense of relief to Heinrich and Helena. FIFTEEN Exile and Dispersal We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. — PSALM 90:9 THE 1940s SAW THE END of the Mennonite colonies in the USSR and the dispersal of their... | |
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For when thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 
