Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six. Four spend in prayer— the rest on nature fix. Rather. Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and 'all to heaven. The British Prose Writers - Page 551821Full view - About this book
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...a wiser economist of the fleeting hours of life, amended the sentence in the following lines : — Seven hours to law, — to soothing slumber seven,...— Ten to the world allot, — and all to heaven. LIVING LIFE OVER AGAIN. Grood Sir Thomas Browne says, Though I think no man can live well once but... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Ode in Imitation of Alcaus. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.9 1 'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1875 - 558 pages
...inculcated, has said in a well-known distich : — 1 " Sex horas somno, totidem des legibus tequ's, " Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven." The one hour here unappropriated is absorbed in the " all tp Heaven." Sir Matthew Hale, another eminent... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...the division of his time, he had written in India, on a small piece of paper, the following lines : Sir Edward Coke : Six hours in sleep, in law's grave...seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.* An Ode, in Imitation of Alarm. What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or laboured mound,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...his time, he had written in India, on a small piece of paper, the following lines : Sir Edward Cote : hopes are fled ; Pale her parched lips, her heavy...sudden pain Frets the meek soul, and then she 's ca An Odt, in Imitation of Akaus. What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or laboured mound,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 314 pages
...the rest on Nature fix." Sir William's distribution reveals a loftier and more devout mind : — " Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and alt to Heaven.1* A life of so much learning, so much diligence, and so much Christian simplicity has... | |
| Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...BYRON, Parviinn. — Some wee short HOCH ayont the twal. Buuxs, Death and Dr. Hornbook. Hours. — Seven HOURS to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. — SIR W. JONES. — What peaceful HOUKS I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still ! But they have... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...in law's grave study si*, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. Quoted in Latin by Sir £. taught me thus to ruminate — That Time will come Sir 1Гт. Joma. I know what study is ; it is to toil Hard through the hours of the sad midnight watch... | |
| Florence Caddy - Home economics - 1877 - 234 pages
...division of our time given in the old lines seems to be a very rational one — " Six hours to work, To soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, And all to heaven." This allows ample time for rest and enjoyment, and sets apart an hour for daily service in the church... | |
| Where, Who - Quotations - 1878 - 186 pages
...SHAKSPEAEE, As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. Set the table on a roar.1 SHAKSPEAEE, Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. SIR W. JONES. That tongue which set the table on a roar. GARRICK, Epitaph on Quin. And humour set the... | |
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