 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 páginas
...more dreadful made: O ! what a riddle of absurdity ! Leisure is pain ; takes off our chariot-wheels ; How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure...amusement mortgages our fields ; Slight inconvenience ! Yet when Death kindly tenders us relief, We call him cruel; years to moments shrink, Ages to years.... | |
 | Viscountess Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton Combermere - 1863 - 444 páginas
...of wood and drawer of water earn their daily bread. Leisure is pain ; take off our chariot wheels, How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure...earth around, To fly that tyrant, Thought. As Atlas groaned The world beneath, we groan beneath au hour. YOUNG. But leisure, a treasure to the poor, is... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 páginas
...more dreadful made; Oh what a riddle of absurdity ! Leisure is pain ; takes off our chariot wheels ; How heavily we drag the load of life ; Blest leisure...earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groaned The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour. We cry for mercy to the next amusement ; The next... | |
 | Methodist preachers - 1866 - 332 páginas
...speed, And whirl us (happy riddance !) from ourselves. Leisure is pain ; takes off our chariot-wheels. Blest leisure is our curse ; like that of Cain, It...wander earth around, To fly that tyrant, Thought. Yet A moment we may wish, When worlds want wealth to buy. 0 then, for yesterdays to come ! " Alas !... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...absurdity ! Leisure is pain ; takes off our chariot wheels : How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blessed at lay along her back Was yellow like ripe groaned The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour. We cry for mercy to the next amusement : The next... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 páginas
...more dreadful made : 0 what a riddle of absurdity ! Leisure is pain ; takes off our chariot wheels : How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure...tyrant, thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, wo groan beneath an hour. We cry for mercy to the next amusement : The next amusement mortgages our... | |
 | 1872 - 710 páginas
...chariot wheels : How heavily we drag the load of life I Blessed leisure is our curse : like that of Cam, r now." Have we not heard the Bridegroom groaned [hour. The world beneath, we groan beneath an We cry for mercy to the next amusement : The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 páginas
...more dreadful made : 0, what a riddle of absurdity ! Leisure is pain ; takes off our chariot wheels : How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure...earth around To fly that tyrant, Thought. As Atlas groaned The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour. Wo cry for mercy to the next amusement : The next... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 páginas
...domineer ; I How heavily we drag the load of life ! Slcst leisure is our curse ; like that of Cain, t x 7 Alias groan'd The world benenlh, we groan beneath an hour iVe cry for mercy to the next amusement ;... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...life, and guides the heart ! Young. 2203. LEISURE. LEISURE is pain ; takes off our chariot-wheels ; How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure...groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour. Young. 2204. LENT. The true THERE'S winter on the hills to-day, The sad wind soughs o'er churchyard... | |
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How heavily we drag the load of life ! Blest leisure is our curse ; like that of Cain, It makes us wander; wander earth around To fly that tyrant, thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour. 
