 My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My 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 life is done.  The Antiquary - Page 871871Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...Inn Fields for Treason, 1586, " ' My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, . ., My feast of joy b but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodes is but vain hope of gain. The day is ned, and yet I saw no sun, And now 1 live, and now my life... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 648 pages
...Lincolns Inn Fields for Treason. 1 586. ' My prime of youth is but a frost of carei, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, 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 J saw no sun, And now I live, and now my... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...prime of youth ys but a frost of cares, [payne, My feast of joyes is but a dishe of My crop of corne is but a field of tares, And all my good is but a shape of gayne. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun : And now I live, and now my life is done.... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1823 - 266 pages
...to : let him stop in time. MARY STUKELEY. My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain ; My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goods is but vain hope of gain : The day is fled — and yet I saw no son, And now I live — and now... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, 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 life is done ! My spring is past, and yet it hath not sprung, The fruit... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...Lincoln's Inn Fields for treason. — 1586. " My prime of youth is but a frost of cares. My feast of joy is but a dish of pain. My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goods is but vain hope of gala. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my life... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 394 pages
...feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is hut a field of tares, And all my goodes is hut vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my life is done ! My spring is past, and yet it hath not sprung, The fruit... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1835 - 474 pages
...Lincoln's Inn Fields for treason. 1586. My prime of youth is but a frost of carea, My feast of joy is bul a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goodee is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet 1 saw no sun, And now I live, and now my... | |
 | Musa, Thomas Oliphant (president of the Madrigal society) - Madrigals - 1837 - 520 pages
...author of the preceding lines. CCXXVIII. My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain ; My crop of corn is but a field...hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my life is done. The spring is past, and yet it hath not sprung ; The fruit... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...thing of their class in the language : / " My prime of youth is bnt a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my goods are but vain hopes of gain. The dny is Hed, and yet I saw no eun, And now 1 live, and now my... | |
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