| Timothy East - 1817 - 246 oldal
...to defer j Next day the fatal Precedent will plead ; ' Thus on, 'till Wisdom is push'd out of Life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene."LETTER II. JF thc objections which arc sometimes adMinced to deter you from becoming decidedly... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 oldal
...madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 412 oldal
...madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves Hie vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange .' That 't is... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 oldal
...madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time. Year after year...till all are fled; And to the mercies of a moment leases The vast concerns of an eternal scene. . Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears For ever on... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 oldal
...bound at length should disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene. I'ROCRASl'INATION.' Youftg* PROCRASTINATION is the thief of time; Year after year...moment, leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm ; that all men are about to live ; For ever on the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 oldal
...madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 oldal
...madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead: Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time. Year after year...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 8. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 oldal
...madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of ah eternal scene. Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live,"... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 oldal
...fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Young's Night Tlioughts, n. 1. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Ibid. DESPAIR. Methinks we stand on ruin ; Nature shakes About us ; and the universal frame's So loose,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 oldal
...madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. If not so frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's... | |
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