| Winston Churchill - 1906 - 630 pagina’s
...suddenly descended with crushing force, and the hurt was mortal. CHAPTER XVIII * ECONOMY When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while... | |
| James MacKaye - 1906 - 218 pagina’s
...life before? " Dryden has expressed the same idea more perfectly in his Aurengzebe : " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while... | |
| M. E. Francis - 1907 - 368 pagina’s
...young squire dead, but that an arch tyrant had come to take his place. CHAPTER XXV "When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit, Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day." HARRY appeared... | |
| James Boswell - 1910 - 542 pagina’s
...may also quote the celebrated lines of Dryden, equally philosophical and poetical : " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and... | |
| 1912 - 572 pagina’s
...Aureng-zebe and Nourmahal, and deserve to be given correctly and in full : — Atir. When I consider Life, 'tis all a Cheat ; Yet, fool'd with Hope, men favour the Deceit ; Trust on, and think To-morrow will repay : To-morrow 's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ;... | |
| Allardyce Nicoll - 1923 - 420 pagina’s
...right when he declares that " quotation has not staled the fine passage " in Iv. i2 : When I consider Life, 'tis all a Cheat ; Yet, fool'd with Hope, Men favour the Deceit. 1 The 1699 edition has the title Aureng-Zebe; or, The Great Mogul. s Nettleton, GH, English Drama of... | |
| William Paton Ker - 1925 - 366 pagina’s
...race comes under this description, in many sermons on the Vanity of Human Wishes : When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and... | |
| William Paton Ker - 1925 - 368 pagina’s
...race comes under this description, in many sermons on the Vanity of Human Wishes : When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and... | |
| Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - 1985 - 280 pagina’s
...personal mood for Dryden, is essentially a free variation on the passage in Lucretius: When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day. . . . Strange cozenage!... | |
| Francois Bernier - 1996 - 570 pagina’s
...and disappointments of life, Act iv. Scene r, ihc best lines in the play : — Aur. When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay : To morrow 's falser than the former ilay ; Lies worse ;... | |
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