 | Edward Young - Women - 1741 - 194 pages
...gay aflembly's gayeft room Is but an upper ftory to fome tomb, Methinks we need not ourJJwrt beings fhun, And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. We need not buy our ruin with our crime , And give eternity to murder time. The love of gaming is the worft of ills, With ceafelefs ftorms... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1752 - 154 pages
...affembly's gay eft room, Is but an upper ftory to fome tomb, Methinks we need not our Jhort beings fiusn, And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. We need not buy our ruin with our crime? And give eternity to murder time. The love of gaming is the worft of ills, With ceafelefs fiorais the... | |
 | Lady - Portia - 1759 - 276 pages
...but an upper ftory to fome tomb, Methinks we need not our fliort beings fliun, And, thought to fiy, contend to be undone : We need not buy our ruin with our crime, And give eternity to murder time. . The love of gaming is the worft of ills, With ceafelefs ftorms... | |
 | Edward Young - English literature - 1762 - 412 pages
...-Etvr. -sc TKT serr xr^ £00, We need not buy our ruin with our crime^ And give eternity to rtlurder time. The love of gaming is the worft of ills ; With...ceafelefs ftorms the blacken'd foul it fills; Inveighs at heav'n, neglects the ties of blood ; Deftroys the pow'r and will of doing good ; Kills health, pawns... | |
 | Edward Young - 1767 - 272 pages
...And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. * SKAXIIFIAKI, We need not buy our ruin with our crime, And give eternity to murder time. The love of gaming...ceafelefs ftorms the blacken'd foul it fills ; Inveighs at heav'n, neglefts the ties of blood ;] Deflroys the pow'r and will of doing good ; Kills health, pawns... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 286 pages
...the gay aflembly's gayeft room Is but an upper ftory to fome tomb, Methinks, we need not our jhort being fhun> And, thought to fly, contend to be undone....the blacken'd foul it fills ; Inveighs at heaven, neglefts the ties of blood ; Deftroys the power and will of doing good; 490 * Shakelpeare. Kills health-,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...afTembly's gayeft room Is but an upper ftory to feme tomb, Methinks we need not our iliort beings {him, And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. We need not buy our ruin with our crime. And give eternity to'rrftmicr time. The love of gaming is the wo/ft of ills; With ceafclcfs ilorms... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...(hort beings fcun, And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. \Ve need not buy our ruin with our crime, And give eternity to murder time. The love of gaming is the worft of ills ; With ceafclefs dorms the blacken'd foul it fills. Inveighs at heaven, neglefts the ties of blood, Deftroys... | |
 | Edward Young - 1792 - 348 pages
...gay aflembly's gayeft room Is but an upper ftory to fomc tomb, Me thinks, we need not onrjhort beings fhun,^ And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. We need not buy our ruin with our crime, And give eternity to murder time. The love of gaming is the worft of ills ; With ceafelefs florms the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...And, .'•'•«•"-/'/ to fly, .-../.-/«/ to be undone. We need not buy our mi* with our crime, And give eternity to murder time. The love of gaming is the word of ills ; With i • .liVIefs ftorms the blacken'd foul it fifls ; Inveighs at Heaven, negleds... | |
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Methinks, we need not our short being shun, And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. We need not buy our ruin with our crime, And give eternity to murder time. 
