 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 420 ページ
...despotic sway the breast, And drags us on by viewless chain, While taste and reason plead in vain.1 1 As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength : So,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 422 ページ
...the frame ; And hence oue master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with hi$ growth, and strengthens with his strength : So,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1901 - 120 ページ
...the frame ; And hence one Master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death ; u5 The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with hia... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 ページ
...DE VERE. For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. Song XX. DR. I. WATTS. ILLNESS. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. Essay... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - 376 ページ
...from passions shoot, Wild Nature's vigour working at the root; but turn the leaf and all is changed: As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength; So, cast... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - 380 ページ
...from passions shoot, Wild Nature's vigour working at the root; but turn the leaf and all is changed: As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength; So, cast... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1909 - 560 ページ
...from passions shoot, Wild Nature's vigour working at the root; but turn the leaf and all is changed: As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength ; So,... | |
 | 1910 - 492 ページ
...the frame; And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. As Man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength : So,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 ページ
...desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all. 1251 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc, 3 As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath. Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with lus growth, and strengthens with his strength. 1252... | |
 | Antonio Rosmini - 1912 - 192 ページ
...mortis?" (Evang. Homil. xxxvii.) A similar sentiment was expressed by Pope in the following lines :— " As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The young disease, which must subdue at length Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength." (Essay... | |
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As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame. 
