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" tis 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 it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of... "
Lectures on the English Poets - Page 228
by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 pages
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The Naturalist in a Boarding School

William A. Murrill - 1919 - 300 pages
...rhyme, And a broader sweep, and a surge sublime As it blends with the ocean of Years. Benjamin F. Taylor Procrastination is the thief of time — Year after...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Young Time wasted is existence, used is life. Young Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor; Part...
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A History of English Literature; a Practical Text-book

Edward Albert - English literature - 1923 - 648 pages
...stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. (2) Be wise to-day : 'tis madness to defer ; Next day...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. YOUNG,...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...Pensioner on the bounties of an Hour? Night Thoughts, i, 1742 140 Trocrastination } E wise to day, 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal Precedent...out of life : Procrastination is the Thief of Time, B1 Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a Moment leaves The vast Concerns...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...two years before AE Beware, Lorenzo,1 a slow sudden death. How dreadful that deliberate surprise ! DZG . ; 390 Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...'t is madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; 390 Thus on, till wisdom is pushed he who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning, 185 Means...sublimely bad, It is not "poetry, but prose run mad: 395 If not so frequent, would not this be strange? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of...
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New English Composition ...

Edwin Lillie Miller - English language - 1929 - 290 pages
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The Young Woman's Journal, Volume 29

Mormon Church - 1918 - 888 pages
...world where none may shirk, Thank God for the splendor of work!" — Angela Morgan. PROCRASTINATION. "Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer; Next day, the...fatal precedent will plead; Thus on till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals till all are fled."...
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A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800

Ronald Salmon Crane - English poetry - 1932 - 1206 pages
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A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800

English poetry - 1932 - 1210 pages
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A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800

Ronald Salmon Crane - English poetry - 1932 - 1336 pages
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