 This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A shadow, passing light, throws to the ground Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Comes malice with a sponge moistened in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away : More than the first this melts...  The Inheritance - الصفحة 179بواسطة Susan Ferrier - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 387عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...unable to withstand — For goodness, whose enclosure is but flesh, Holds out oft times but sorrily. This is the state of man ; in prosperous fortune,...passing light, throws to the ground Joy's baseless fabrick ; in adversity Comes malice with a spunge moistened in gall, And wipes each beauteous character... | |
 | Greek tragic theatre - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...vindictive rage Hangs o'er my hated murderers, oh avenge me, Though, a poor slave, I fall an easy prey ! This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A shadow, passing light, throws to the ground (59) • .- ' " • Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Comes malice with a spunge moisten'd in gall,... | |
 | Jean-Jacques Barthélemy - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...eloquence with which he pourtrays the mis« chiefs of Fortune. Cassandra exclaims with indignation : This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune....fabric : in adversity, Comes Malice with a sponge moistened in gall. And wipes each beauteous character away : More than the first this melts my soul... | |
 | 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...vindictive rage Hangs o'er my hated murderers, oh avenge me, Though, a poor slave, I fall an easy prey ! This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A...to the ground Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Come malice with a sponge moisten'd in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away : ':s More than... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...was declined, and they parted still more favourably impressed with each other. CHAPTER XIX. This i« the state of man ; in prosperous fortune A shadow...to the ground Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity Conies malice with a sponge moisten'd in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away. ESCHTLUS. THE... | |
 | Ramses II (King of Egypt), Edward Upham - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...pride of life, the state of man, in prosperous fortune, firm as he deems himself? A shadow passing by throws to the ground joy's baseless fabric ! In adversity comes Malice with a sponge moistened in gall, and, however bright his conduct, wipes each beauteous character away. To few the... | |
 | 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 684
...gall, soon wipes each fluttering trait away.' These sentiments occur in Potter's translation : • This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A...Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity, Comes malice in a spunge moistened in gall. And wipes each beauteous character away.' No doubt, had the writer given... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 680
...in gall, soon wipes each flattering trait away.' These sentiments occur in Potter's translation : ' This is the state of man: in prosperous fortune A...Joy's baseless fabric : in adversity. Comes malice in a spunge moistened in gall. And wipes each beauteous character away.' No doubt, had the writer given... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...smile ! O where shall man escape his num'rous foes, And rest his weary head iu safe repose? Camoens. This is the state of man ; in prosperous fortune :...in gall, And wipes each beauteous character away. Potter's jEschylus. Agamem. LIBERTY. " O Nomen dulce libertatis ! O jus eximium nostree civitatis !... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...rage Hangs o'er my hated murderers, O, avenge me ; 1395 Though, a poor slave, I fall an easy prey ! This is the state of man : in prosperous fortune A...adversity Comes malice with a sponge moisten'd in gall, 1400 And wipes each beauteous character away : More than the first this melts my soul to pity. By nature... | |
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