 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pagina’s
...Pleasures are few ; and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy ; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill. Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seized at last, compute your mighty gains, What is it, but rank poison in your veins ? Young. QUICKSILVER,... | |
 | 1841 - 214 pagina’s
..." Pleasures are fled, and fewer we enjoy; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy: We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill ; Still it eludes us, and it glitters still: If seized at last, comp'ete your mighty gains : What is it but rank poison in your veins ?" — YOUNG.... | |
 | 1867 - 848 pagina’s
...'• Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy ; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still. If seized at last, compute your mighty gains, — What is it but rank poison in your veins ? LOVE or FAME,... | |
 | 1844 - 326 pagina’s
..."Pleasures are fled, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy : We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill ; Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seized at last, complete your mighty gains : What is it but rank poison in your veins 1" — YODNG.... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1844 - 338 pagina’s
..."Pleasures are fled, and fewer we enjoy; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy : We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill ; Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seized at last, complete your mighty gains : What is it but rank poison in your veins 1" — YOUNO.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pagina’s
...and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy ; We strive to grasp it with oar utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters...mighty gains, What is it, but rank poison in your veins ?" — Warton. Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it, when they give no more... | |
 | 1851 - 316 pagina’s
...hazard, Still it eludes us, and it glitten still : And make the impossibility they fear. If seized at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it but rank poison in your veins ? ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. — Two wealthy gentlemen were lately conversing in regard to the period when... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pagina’s
...of angels can't confine me there. i PLEASURE. I I PLEASURES are fled, and fewer we enjoy ; If seized at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it but rank poison in your veins? GAMBLING. IMMORTAL were we, or else mortal quite, I less should blame this criminal delight ; But since... | |
 | 1851 - 396 pagina’s
...That leads to virtue and to God. PLEASURE. "PLEASURE, like quicksilver, is bright and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill ; Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seized at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it but rank poison in your veins?" THE LITTLE GIRL... | |
 | Edward Young - 1852 - 528 pagina’s
..." ' Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seized at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins !" " His conceits... | |
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Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy\ We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains; What is it, but rank poison... 
