 Our life is but a winter's day : Some only breakfast and away ; Others to dinner stay and are full fed ; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.  Notes and Queries - Strana 3441879Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Bridges - 1879 - Počet stránok 344
...Meffin, Chief Constable for Stirlingshire, 1809," and ran thus: " Our life is but a winter's day, Some breakfast and away, Others to dinner stay And are...to bed; Large is his debt Who lingers out the day, He who goes soonest Has the least to pay. 1 ' • "I wonder if the old fellow wrote his own epitaph?"... | |
 | Mrs. Forrester - 1879 - Počet stránok 406
...Meffin, Chief Constable for Stirlingshire, 1809," and ran thus: " Our life is but a winter's day: Some breakfast and away, Others to dinner stay And are full fed. The oldest man but supa And goes to bed. Large is his debt Who lingers out the day; He who goes soonest Has the least... | |
 | 1880 - Počet stránok 572
...Our life " — writes the poetic commemorator of the virtues of the deceased Mr. Patrick Jones — Our life is but a winter's day — Some only breakfast...to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day : \Vho goes the soonest has the least to pay. Another party, lionisers like ourselves, have been studying... | |
 | Laura L. Rees - 1880 - Počet stránok 328
...Miffin, Chief Constable of Stirlingshire, who died in 1807. " Our life is but a winter's day, Some breakfast and away, Others to dinner stay And are...to bed. Large is his debt Who lingers out the day ; He who goes soonest Has the least to pay." There were other memorials of distinguished men, whose... | |
 | 1880 - Počet stránok 298
...in rather a curious form. It is dated 1809, on one Alexander E. Miflen : " Our life is but a winter day, Some only breakfast and away ; Others to dinner...The oldest man but sups, And goes to bed. Large is bis debt That lingers out the dayj Ho that goes soonest Hав the least to pay." In a like pithy shape,... | |
 | 1880 - Počet stránok 96
...great or small. Life's an inn ; ray house will show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. Man's life is but a winter's day ; Some only breakfast, and away ; Others to dinner stop, and are full fed ; The oldest mar. but sups and then to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out... | |
 | 1881 - Počet stránok 534
...English rural life of the same period. 376. Authorship Wanted. (a.) Our life is but a passing day. Snme only breakfast, and away, Others to dinner stay, and...sups and goes to bed; Large is his debt who lingers through the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay. The above has very much the sound of George... | |
 | Anna L. Beck Möring - 1882 - Počet stránok 162
...mourners closed her eyes, Her head-stone was an old tree's root, Be mine to utter, — "Here she lies." OUR life is but a winter's day : Some only breakfast...sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers through the day; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay. VICE-PRESIDENT WILSON'S SKETCH OF HIS EARLY... | |
 | Anna L. Beck Möring - 1882 - Počet stránok 164
...mourners closed her eyes, Her head-stone was an old tree's root, Be mine to utter, — "Here she lies." OUR life is but a winter's day : Some only breakfast and away ; Others to dinner stay, and arc full fed ; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers through the day... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1885 - Počet stránok 720
...buried. Some twenty years ago I copied the lines, but omitted to take note of the date. Our life is like a winter's day, Some only breakfast, and away ; Others to dinner stay, and are well fed, The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Great is his debt who lingers out the day, Who... | |
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