 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...life eternity we taftc, View the firft ages, and inform the laft ; Arts, hift'ry, laws, we purchafe with a look, And keep, like fate, all nature in a book. NIGHT. NOW filence reigns, and folemn darknefs fpreads, O'er all the earth, the gloomy veil of night;... | |
 | 1804 - 512 pages
...and titles last and liv« In scanty life—Eternity we taste, View the first ages, and inform th« last. Arts, history, laws, we purchase with a look, And keep, like fate, all nature iu a book. The perusal of the foregoing verses gave birth to the following, written by a gentleman... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 352 pages
...and live. In scanty life eternity we taste ; View the first ages, and inform the last, Arts, hist'iy, laws, we purchase with a look, And keep, like fate, all Nature in a book. BA VERSES. The rock riven torrent yet roared in the glen And the time-shattered cliffs wildly echoed... | |
 | William West - Warwickshire (England) - 1830 - 860 pages
...And bid all deeds and titles last and live. In scanty life— ETERNITY we taste, View the first ajes and inform the last. Arts, history, laws, we purchase...a look, And keep, like Fate, all nature in a BOOK. BIRMINGHAM DIRECTORY. AAR. .ADD Aaron Abraham, Gt. Brook-street Aaron David, pawnbroker, and sealing... | |
 | Songs - Printing - 1833 - 142 pages
...in sense ; View, though confin'd,—nay, rule this earthly ball, And travel o'er the wide expanded all. Dead letters thus with living notions fraught,...a look, And keep like Fate, all nature in a BOOK. THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING. A CANTATA. RECITATIVE. WHEN on the Greeks and Romans' learned page, The barb'rous... | |
 | William West - Booksellers and bookselling - 1837 - 236 pages
...give, And bid all deeds and titles last and live. In scanty life — ETERNITY we taste, Ariew the firs/ ages, and inform the last; Arts, history, laws, we purchase with a look. And keep like F.VII alt nature in a II.IOK. ' "Sfr. RicJiard Baldiein. He printed a great deal, but got as little... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - Book industries and trade - 1845 - 234 pages
...fraught, Prove to the soul the telescope of thought ; To mortal life immortal honour give, And hid all deeds and titles last and live. In scanty life,...look. And keep, like Fate, all nature in a BOOK. MRS. GHIERSON.• SONNET. ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRFSS. SOMK laws there are too sacred for the hand Of man... | |
 | John Todd - Students - 1853 - 302 pages
...living notions fraught, Prove to the soul the telescope of thought ; To mortal life a deathless witness give, And bid all deeds and titles last and live....a look, And keep, like fate, all nature in a book. I hope the impression will not be left upon your mind that I deem a fair hand of no consequence. It... | |
 | John Todd - High school students - 1856 - 296 pages
...fraught, Prove to the soul the telescope of thought ; To mortal life a deathless witness give, And hid all deeds and titles last and live. In scanty life...a look, And keep, like fate, all nature in a book. I hope the impression will not be left upon your mind that I deem a fair hand of no consequence. It... | |
 | E. Owens Blackburne - Ireland - 1877 - 384 pages
...commune in sense ; View, though confin'd, nay ! rule this earthly ball, And travel o'er the wide extended ALL ! Dead letters thus with living notions fraught...a look. And keep, like fate, all nature in a book. The chief monuments of her erudition which Mrs. Grierson has left behind her are her unrivalled translations... | |
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To mortal life immortal honour give, And bid all deeds and titles last and live. In scanty life — Eternity we taste, View the first ages, and inform the last; Arts, history, laws — we purchase with a look, And keep, like fate, all nature in a book. 
