 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay; Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Seattle. Resolves, and re-resolves;... | |
 | John Mason - Conduct of life - 1828 - 162 pages
...wastbemsxrocosmj (the great world,) and the world without, the microcosm. (59) At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolvei In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves—then... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...MDXXXIIL All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. At thirty man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers Were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty, chides his infamous delay f Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; in all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...MDXXXIII. All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. At thirty man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...goddeas, of thy promise made ! Most sad Ulysse* ever be delayed ? Ptf,*. At thirty man suspect* himself a fool ; Knows it at forty and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay ; — In all the magnanimity of thought Resolve*, and re-resolves, then dies the same. Young. DELECTABLE,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...heavens to earth, Now the king drinks to Hamlet. Trag. of Humid. 10. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves and reresolves —... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves... | |
 | Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 pages
...responsibility will be best secured by self-examination. By this, " At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves-;... | |
 | George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 pages
...ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty, chides his infamous delay ; Pushes bis prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves,... | |
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At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same. 
