 The world's a bubble and the Life of Man Less than a span In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but...  The Living Age - Pagina 2871908Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - 556 pagine
...exhilarate." In the latter part of his life, Bacon wrote a short poem, which I insert in its entirety : " The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span; In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Cursed from his cradle and brought up to... | |
 | 1910 - 498 pagine
...falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN [1561-1626} 22j LIFE THE world's a bubble and the life of Man Less than a span; In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to... | |
 | 1911 - 798 pagine
...volume at hand) with the variants of the Reliquiae Wottonianae, one of which I have adopted. The World. The World's a bubble : and the life of man less than a span. In his Conception wretched : from the womb so to the Tomb : 5 Curst from the Cradle, and brought up... | |
 | 1911 - 190 pagine
...without analysis that — Absent thee from felicity awhile — is noble and beautiful verse and that — The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a spanis not. Take two of the greatest of the sons of men, Caesar and Napoleon. Although it would require... | |
 | 1915 - 488 pagine
...aged man his right To be your beadsman now that was your knight. George Peele [1558?- 1597?] THE WORLD THE World's a bubble, and the life of Man Less than a span: In his conception wretched, — from the womb, So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 916 pagine
...accredited verse, 'A Translation of Certain Psalms into English Verse' (1624). A poem on 'The World,'— "The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span," — is sometimes ascribed to him, but. is of doubtful authorship. Bibliography. — The dates of Bacon's... | |
 | George W. Rine - 1915 - 348 pagine
...and note the effect. 1. We are the prisoners of ideas. 2. He is the very pineapple of politeness. 3. The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span. 4. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. —... | |
 | 1916 - 528 pagine
...nicht selten behandelten gegenstand, darstellen. Es ist Bacons einziges bekanntes originelles gedieht (The World's a bubble: and the life of man — less than a span beginnend 3) , das an Sir Henry Wotton gerichtet scheint , da ') Sir Henry Wotton war später gesandter... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 698 pagine
...children's bones, And dasheth them against the pavement stones. THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE From 'Works,' Vol. xiv. THE world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span; In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb : Curst from the cradle, and brought up to... | |
 | 1918 - 848 pagine
...accredited verse, 'A Translation of Certain Psalms into English Verse' (1624). A poem on 'The World,'— "The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span," — is sometimes ascribed to him, but is of doubtful authorship. See ESSAYS OF BACON. Bibliography.... | |
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