 | Christian - 1840 - 318 σελίδες
...Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. HUMAN FRAILTY. Woven with pain into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well...Passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part; Virtue engages his assent, But Pleasure wins... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 514 σελίδες
...knowledge of the infirmity of the beet natural disposition, however free from the worldly character : " Weak and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day,...Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away." — Cooper. Unfortunately, too, he was surrounded by neighbours whose superior wealth and studied ostentation,... | |
 | John Mulligan - 1857 - 608 σελίδες
...be supplicd as the first step in the analysis of such elliptical forms of expression. Examples : " The bow well bent, and smart the spring, Vice seems already slain," &c. — The bow BFJNO well bent, and the spring BEING smart. have become obsolete in oar language long... | |
 | 1858 - 460 σελίδες
...There was death within the smiling home, How had death found her there ? HUMAN FRAILTY.— Cmiper. WEAK and irresolute is man, The purpose of to-day,...passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part ; Virtue engages his assent, But pleasure... | |
 | M. M. Bell - 1858 - 442 σελίδες
...own feelings, but he saw the ~"t>n — the whole truth — too clearly. CHAPTER XIII. IERESOLUTION. " Weak and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow renda away." COWPEII. STANHOPE quitted Ellen with new and strange feelings. He was not the only sufferer.... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1859 - 304 σελίδες
...HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAR and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-dayi Woven with pains into his plan, The bow well bent, and smart the spring, Vice seems...passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent, Finds out his weaker part ; Virtue engages his nssent, But pleasure... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1859 - 712 σελίδες
...glories, glides away, And the stern footsteps of decay Come stealing on. 569. CM COPPER Human Frailty. 1 WEAK and irresolute is man : The purpose of to-day,...Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. 2 Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part ; Virtue engages his assent, But pleasure... | |
 | Cheshire Pastoral Association - 1859 - 566 σελίδες
...its glories, glides away, And the stern footsteps of decay Come stealing on. 509. CM Human Frailty. 1 WEAK and irresolute is man : The purpose of to-day,...Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. 2 Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part; Virtue engages his assent, But pleasure... | |
 | William Cowper - 1860 - 506 σελίδες
...shall I see thee start away, And helpless, hopeless, hear thee say — Farewell ! we meet no more ? HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAK and irresolute is man The purpose of to-day, Woven pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well bent, and smart the spring, Vice seems already... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1861 - 506 σελίδες
...knowledge of the infirmity of the best natural disposition, however free from the worldly character: "Weak and irresolute is man; The purpose of to-day,...Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away." — Cki^r. Unfortunately, too, he was surrounded by neighbours ^rhose superior •wealth and studied... | |
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WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well bent, and smart the spring. Vice seems already slain ; But Passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. 
