 So whilst in fevered dreams we sink. And waking, taste what we desire, The real draught but feeds the fire, The dream is better than the drink. " Our hopes like towering falcons aim At objects in an airy height : To stand aloof and view the flight, Is...  Proceedings: Selected Papers [of The] Annual Meeting - Page 192by National Conference on Social Welfare - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Charles Gildon, Sir Charles Sedley, George Stepney, John Dryden - 1701 - 362 pages
...The Day like all the former fled, Yet on he runs to leek Delight To Morrow till to Night he's Dead. * Our Hopes like towering Falcons aim At Objects in an airy Height, > But all the Pleafure of the Game, Is afar off to view the Flight. The worthlefs Prey but only fhows The joys confided... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 320 pages
...like all the forra'er flies : Yet on he runs, to feek delight To-morrow, till to-night he dies. VI. Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height : The little pleafure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. VII. Our anxious pains we, all the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...This day like all the former flies : Yet on he rnns,to seek delight Tomorrow, till to-night he dies. iversal praise ! Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As stre : The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. Our anxious pains we, all the day,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1835 - 574 pages
...cases, to make the object of it ap pear indifferent, would be to put it fairly within our grasp. " Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height ; But all the pleasure ot the game, Is afar off to view the flight." What little value do we set on discoveries that have... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...This day like all the former flies : Yet on he runs, to seek delight To-morrow, till to-night he dies. Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height : The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. Our anxious pains we, all the day,... | |
 | 1860 - 1172 pages
...ingemnitqne reperta.' " But what is true of science is true, indeed, of all human activity. ' In lile,' as the great Pascal observes, ' we always believe...are seeking repose, while, in reality, all that we ever seek is agitation.' When Pyrrhus proposed to subdue a part of the world, and then to enjoy rest... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 pages
...ingemuitque reperta.' " But what is true of science is true, indeed, of all human activity. ' In lite,' as the great Pascal observes, ' we always believe...are seeking repose, while, in reality, all that we ever seek is agitation.' When Pyrrhus proposed to subdue a part of the world, and then to enjoy rest... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...waking, taste what we desire, The real draught but feeds the fire, The dream is better than the drink. " Our hopes like towering falcons aim At objects in an airy height : To stand aloof and view the flight, Is all the pleasure of the game." He felt my pulse, prescribed... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...waking, taste what we desire, The real draught bat feeds the fire, The dream is better than the drink. " Our hopes like towering falcons aim At objects in an airy height : , To stand aloof and view the flight, Is all the pleasure of the game." He felt my pulse, prescribed... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 508 pages
...day like all the former flies : Yet on he runs, to seek delight To-morrow, till to-night he dies. 6 Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. 7 Our anxious pains we, all the day,... | |
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