 | Susan Darling Safford - 1895 - Страниц: 56
...is but a Winter's day. Some breakfast and away. Others to dinner stay and are well fed. The oldest sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay. John Phillips. Accidentally shot as a mark of affection... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - 1896 - Страниц: 600
...late years. In the churchyard is an epitaph, a variant of others found elsewhere:— Our life is but a winter's day ; Some only breakfast, and away: Others...and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day : Who goes the soonest has the least to pay. The point here is that the stone commemorates... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1914 - Страниц: 320
...Churchvard are to be seen in a number of cemeteries throughout the country : "Our life is but a winter day Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner...stay and are full fed. The oldest man but sups and goee to bed." As a, rule, the following lines, which are suggestive, are inscribed — "Long is his... | |
 | Walter Hobhouse - 1898 - Страниц: 178
...vitam quae est hodie ' nimis beatam.' LXIV. Epitaph in Wraxall Churchyard, Somerset. Our life is but a winter's day, some only breakfast and away, others...full fed : the oldest man but sups and goes to bed. He owes the most who lingers out the day; who goes the soonest has the least to pay. LXV. Our deeds... | |
 | D. Brown Anderson - 1899 - Страниц: 398
...graveyard of the High Church, can be read one of the quaintest of epitaphs : " Oar life is but a winter day; Some only breakfast and away: Others to dinner...oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt that lingers out the day; He that goes soonest has the least to pay." In a week's sojourn on the banks... | |
 | William McMahon - 1900 - Страниц: 746
...rooms, and then amid the old tombs of the long-buried and forgotten monks. "Our life is but a summer's day ; Some only breakfast and away ; Others to dinner...fed ; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large his account who lingers out the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay." The next day we began... | |
 | T. Kingston Clarke - 1901 - Страниц: 484
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 | Charles George Harper - 1902 - Страниц: 376
...few English epitaphs is one not often met : — MEMORIALS 191 Our life is but a winter's ilay, Some breakfast and away : Others to dinner stay and are...and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day ; \Vho goes the soonest has the least to pay. The subject of those lines had a short reckoning.... | |
 | Frederic William Unger - 1904 - Страниц: 216
...sad, And I wish my father never had. In Llangollan Churchyard, Wales : " Our life is but a summer's day : Some only breakfast, and away ; Others to dinner...fed ; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large his account who lingers out the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay. vAt length, my friends,... | |
 | 1905 - Страниц: 120
...Man. Man's life is like a winter day: Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay and are foil fed; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed; Large is the debt who lingers out the day; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay. Death is the waiter —... | |
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Our life is but a Winter's day — Some only breakfast and away. Others to dinner stay and are full fed, The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day : Who goes the soonest has the least to pay. 
