John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Townsend Trowbridge. (1827– ?) (continued) |
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| With years a richer life begins, The spirit mellows: Ripe age gives tone to violins, Wine, and good fellows. |
| Three Worlds. |
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| The all-enclosing freehold of Content. |
| Guy Vernon. |
| Robert Barnabas Brough. (1828–1860) |
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| My Lord Tomnoddy is thirty-four; The Earl can last but a few years more. My Lord in the Peers will take his place: Her Majesty’s councils his words will grace. Office he’ll hold and patronage sway; Fortunes and lives he will vote away; And what are his qualifications?—ONE! He’s the Earl of Fitzdotterel’s eldest son. |
| My Lord Tomnoddy. |
| George Walter Thornbury. (1828–1876) |
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| Man’s life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best. 1 |
| The Jester’s Sermon. |
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| The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. |
| The Jester’s Sermon. |
| Note 1. See Gay, page 350: Life is a jest and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. Life ’s but a series of trifles at best. Anonymous. Life is an empty dream. Robert Browning. Paracelsus, ii. [back] |