| 1871 - 546 trang
...Chediock Tichbome had written it a short time before his death. These lines were as follows : — " ' My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joys is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my good is but vain hope... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1873 - 300 trang
...of Cheddiock Tichborne could be read as the character and epitaph of the late Roger Tichborne : — My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast...My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodes is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my... | |
| 1871 - 546 trang
...peroration of his great speech, thus alluded to an earlier historical member of this ancient family :— " ' My prime of youth is but a frost of cares. My feast of joys is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares. And all my good is but vain hope... | |
| John Hosack - 1874 - 680 trang
...that 1 The following touching lines were composed by Titehboume the night before his execution : — " My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast...My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodes is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun ; And now I live, and now my... | |
| 1874 - 576 trang
...verses, written by Chideoek Tichborne on the night before he suffered death for treason, 1586 : *' My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast...My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodcs is but vain hope of gajn. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun ; And now I live, and now my... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1874 - 348 trang
...than by salting from 134,867 cwts. to 214,248 cwts. On the other hand, the import of beef, fresh or I My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodes is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my... | |
| sir Walter Ralegh - 1875 - 316 trang
...BY CHIDICK TYCHBORN, BEING YOUNG AND THEN IN THE TOWEB, THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS EXECUTION.i (1586.) | Y prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of...crop of corn is but a field of tares ; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; i " Rel. Wotton." and in numerous MS. copies ; eg Harl. MS. 6910, fol.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 trang
...prisoners be unbound. GEORGE CKOLY. LINES WRITTEN BY ONE IN THE TOWER. BEING YOUNG AND CONDEMNED TO DIE. MY prime of youth is but a frost of cares ; My feast...crop of corn is but a field of tares ; And all my good is but vain hope of gain : The day is [fled], and yet I saw no sun ; And now I live, and now my... | |
| Violet Fane - 1877 - 204 trang
...to another purpose?" — ( Written by Babington under the picture of himself and his companions. ) " My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast...My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodes is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 trang
...prisoners be unbound. GEORGE CROLV. LINES WRITTEN BY ONH IN THE TOWER, BEING YOUNG AND CONDEMNED TO DIE. MY prime of youth is but a frost of cares ; My feast...crop of corn is but a field of tares ; And all my good is but vain hope of gain : The day is [fled], and yet I saw no sun ; And now I live, and now my... | |
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