Cowper.—Hope, Line 127.
To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.
Campbell.—Hallowed Ground, Verse 6.
Life is a warfare.
Seneca.—Of a Happy Life, Chap. VIII.
Life is a navigation.
Seneca.—Of a Happy Life, Chap. XXI.
Life’s a tragedy.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Life is a jest, and all things show it:
I thought so once, but now I know it.
Gay.—“My Own Epitaph.”
Life is but a day at most.
Burns.—Friars’ Carse Hermitage.
Longest life is but a day.
Wordsworth.—Rob Roy’s Grave.
Our whole life is like a play.
Ben Jonson.—Discoveries.
LIFE.—Life is a journey:—on we go
Thro’ many a scene of joy and woe.
George Combe.—Dr. Syntax, Tour to the Lakes, Chap. XII.
Life, sir! no prince fares like him; he breaks his fast with Aristotle, dines with Tully, drinks at Helicon, sups with Seneca; then walks a turn or two in the milky-way, and after six hours’ conference with the stars, sleeps with old Erra Pater.
Colley Cibber.—Love Makes a Man, Act I. Scene I.
Reason thus with life:
If I lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,
(Servile to all the skiey
influences,)
That dost this habitation, where thou keepest,
Hourly afflict.
Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene 1. (Duke to Claudio.)
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat;
Yet, fool’d with hope, men favour the deceit;
—None would live past
years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain.
Dryden.—Aurengzebe, Act IV. Scene 1.