In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy: In vain their gifts the bounteous... The Works of Lord Byron - Page 149by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
| Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 496 pages
...suppliant prays ; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy : 26o In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal and the vernal flow'r; With... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pages
...suppliant prays ; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted, is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts...store, He views, and wonders that they please no more ; Now pall the tasteless meats, and joyless wines, And luxury with sighs her slave resigns. Approach,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 68 pages
...vain their Gifts the bounteous Seafons pour, The Fruit Autumnal, and the Vernal Flow'r, With liftlefs Eyes the Dotard views the Store, He views, and wonders that they pleafe no more ; Now pall the taftlefs Meats, and joylefs Wines, And Luxury with Sighs her Slave reiigns.... | |
| Donald Davie - 1989 - 278 pages
...temper of it comes clear as soon as we return the phrase to its context in 'The Vanity of Human Wishes': 'Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, /And shuts up all the Passages of Joy.' The life in Gunn's poems is life in Little-ease; and he persuades us while we read that this is true... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know. That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy; 260 In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vemal flower; With... | |
| David Silver, Tim Bourke - 2000 - 196 pages
...cruel, Brad. Must you show me my future? Dr. Johnson said that 'Life protracted is woe protracted. Time hovers o'er impatient to destroy, and shuts up all the passages of joy.' But he didn't live to see himself grow old and decrepit." "What future? This is the Sectional tournament... | |
| Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...a tragic awareness. The attrition of time on human effort registered in The Vanity oj Human W1shes ("Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, / And shuts up all the Passages of Joy" [lines 259-6o]), reveals, as many have discussed, a potentially tragic discrepancy between will and... | |
| Paul Giles - 2002 - 356 pages
...collection, The Passages of Joy, is taken from a poem by Samuel Johnson, "The Vanity of Human Wishes": "Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, / And shuts up all the Passages of Joy."105 Gunn, however, enacts a characteristic revision of the English literary canon as he reworks... | |
| John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...suppliant prays: Hides from himself its state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy. A sceptical eye is cast on both worldly and scholarly ambition: Deign on the passing world to turn... | |
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