 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1834 - 340 pages
...all is out of sight that smirch'd the ray. We have not time to mourn. FATHER JOHN. The worse for us ! He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity. Yet such the barrenness of busy life ! From shelf to shelf Ambition clambers up, To reach the naked'st... | |
 | 576 pages
...Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Wheresorrow's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity. Yet such the barrenness of busy life ! From shelf to shelf Ambition clambers up, To reach the naked'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 564 pages
...mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity. Yet such the barrenness of busy life ! From shelf to shelf Ambition clambers up, To reach the naked'st... | |
 | 1834 - 566 pages
...mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity. Yet such the barrenness of busy life ! From shelf to shelf Ambition clambers up, To reach the naked'st... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1835 - 524 pages
...mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity. Yet such the barrenness of busy life ! From shelf to shelf Ambition clambers up, To reach the nakedest... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1835 - 552 pages
...'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held obtrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity. Yet such the barrenness of busy life ! From shelf to shelf Ambition clambers up, To reach the nakedest... | |
 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1837 - 188 pages
...honorable thought and deed below, Look to that Power who watch'd thy self-denial. Sabbath Recreations. m. " HE that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity." Philip Van Artevelde. IV. OH, deem not they are blest alone Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep ; The... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity. Yet such the barrenness of busy life ! From shelf to shelf Ambition clambers up, To reach the naked'st... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - Moral education - 1842 - 338 pages
...mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where Sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There Wisdom will not...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity." Although, then, the death of children may bring grief, let us see if, even with mortal vision, we cannot... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - English poetry - 1843 - 328 pages
...subjoin the passage which suggested this. " We have not time to mourn. Father John.—"The worse for us ; He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend. Eternity...nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity." PAGE 176. Philip Van Artevelde. * My grief or mirth Attunes the earth, I harmonize the world: S;c.... | |
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He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies... 
