 | Edward Young - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 370 pages
...be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...of a moment, leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scent Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live: For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think, They, one day, shall not drivel ; and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still, Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born : All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...strange ? That 'tis so Ireiliient, this is stranger still. Of man's mirat ulous mistakes this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born : All pay themselves the complunent to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being bora. All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Robert Sandeman - Christian sects - 1838 - 534 pages
...some lines, which I think may be pertinently quoted here. Of man's miraculous mistakes. this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live." For ever on the brink of being born, All pay themselves the compliment to think, They one day, shall not drivel ; and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Edward Young - Bible - 1839 - 300 pages
...be strange. That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live,' For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man'« miraculous mistakes, this bears se, And rights submitted, left him none to seize. At length R : AU pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their prido On this... | |
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Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise... 
