 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...give, That, till the world's last end, shall make thy name to live. 1 ' Youth : ' Mercy. ON TIME.1 FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on...is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast cntomb'd, And last of all thy greedy self consum'd, Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss • With... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...give, That, till the world's last end, shall make thy name to live. 1 'Youth:' Mercy. ON TIME.1 FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on...is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, And last of all thy greedy self consum'd, Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss With an... | |
 | G. F. Burckhardt - 1853 - 366 pages
...Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. Beattie. On Time. Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race; Call on...is thy gain! For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, And last of all thy greedy self consumed, Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss With an... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up I trust? Sir W. Raleigh. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on...dross: So little is our loss, So little is thy gain. Milton. Time's minutes, whilst they 're told, Do make us old; And every sand of his fleet glass, Increasmg... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Religion - 1853 - 538 pages
...distinction between Time and Eternity, I should wish my readers to meditate these lines of Milton. " Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race; Call on...dross : So little is our loss, So little is thy gain. MILTON ON TIME. 441 For when, as each thing bad thou haat intomb'd, And last of all thy greedy self... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...had, when he wrote it, and nothing satisfied with what was begun, left it unfinished. ON TIME.* FLY, .envious Time, -till thou run out thy race, Call on...devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, s * In Milton's MS. written with his own hand,' — ' On Time. To be set on a clock-case.' ,, Warton.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...Time (once past) can never be recall'd, And therefore Time is figured to be bald. Peter Small. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on...mortal dross; So little is our loss, So little is our gain. For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, And last of all thy greedy self cousum'd,... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...the Scythian's name ; Or Medway smooth, or royal-towered Thame. [The reel was prose.] ON TIME. FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on...is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entombed, And last of all thy greedy self consumed, Then long eternity shall greet our bliss With an... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...frequent return of rhyme. — T. WARTOH. 1 ON TIME.i FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race j Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed...is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb' d, And last of all thy greedy self consumed, Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss With... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...when he wrote it, and nothing satisfied with what was begun, left it unfinished.] V. ON TIME.1 FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on...vain, And merely mortal dross; So little is our loss, For when as each thing bad thou hast entombed. So little is thy gain. And last of all thy greedy self... | |
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FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ;... 
