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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 768

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.

7590

The all-enclosing freehold of Content.

Guy Vernon.

Robert Barnabas Brough. (1828–1860)

7591

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)

7592

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]

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