 MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.  The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe - Pagina 319de Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1856Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1794 - 288 pagini
...DEAD. When they come to the Grave, the Minlfter jhall IVlAN that is born of a woman, hath but a fhort time to live : He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a fhadow, and never continueth in one ftay. In the midft of life we are in death... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pagini
...important truth. •r ""•.The great teacher, Death, Is ever sounding in our ears the •awfal warning, ' man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live .' that we must shortly follow the friend that is gone •liefore us : that the knell which announces... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 390 pagini
...lesson, not to set our affections on tilings below. The great and irreversible iaw of nature is this : " Man that is born of a woman " hath but a short time to live, and is full of "misery: he cometh up, and is cut down like " a flower, he fleeth as it were a shadow,... | |
 | John Disney - 1802 - 342 pagini
...attend the body are come to the grave, and the corpse is laid into the earthy the minister shall say ; MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble : he cometh up, and is cut down like i2 a flower ; a flower; he fleeth like... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pagini
...and disquieteth himself in vain, he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them." — " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He fleeth as it were a shadow."... | |
 | Francis Quarles - 1807 - 410 pagini
...labour; if in my business, troubled with vexation ; if in my devotion, troubled \vith distraction. Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time, and is full of trouble. Where shall I turn me to avoid this toil ? what steps shall I tread to escape... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pagini
...to the grave, while the Corfise is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said, AN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is Yet,O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, () holy and... | |
 | David Hughson - 1809 - 820 pagini
...voice was heard through the remaining part of the painful ceremony, but the clergyman's and clerk's — "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery; he cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; ha flecth, as it were, a shadow,... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1809 - 784 pagini
...heard through the remaining part of the painful ceremony, but the clergyman's and clerk's-*-" Matt that is born of a woman hath but a short time to lire, and is full of misery; he cometh up, and is cnt down like a Bower; he fieeth, as it were, a shadow,... | |
 | William Jones - 1810 - 502 pagini
...ground. Pope's Homer, b. 6. 1. 181. How sublime and affecting is that reflection in the book of Job — " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery; he cometh up like a flower, and is cut down*:" In the. same figurative language... | |
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