 | University magazine - 1851 - Страниц: 796
...both voice and heart, paralysed by grief, and possessed wholly by the one terrible idea, refused. Vet her ear caught faintly the sublime words of the funeral...be certified how long I have to live. " ' Behold, ill. >ii hast made my days as it were a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee... | |
 | William Greenleaf Eliot - 1851 - Страниц: 476
...tongue. Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long ; and my age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man at his best state is altogether... | |
 | Henry Hunt Piper - 1852 - Страниц: 182
...within me, and while I was thus mufing the fire kindled : and at the laft I fpake with my tongue ; Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days...be certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou haft made my days as it were a fpan long : and mine age is even as nothing in refpeft of thee ; and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1968 - Страниц: 244
...canakin clink. See The Songs, p. 237. 64 canakin small can 67 life's but a span. Compare Psalm 39.5: 'Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long.' 72 potting drinking 77 Ahnaine German 84-91 King Stephen . . . cloak about thee. This song was earlier... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1983 - Страниц: 1028
...rendered in The Book of Common Prayer, where it is part of the liturgy for the Burial of the Dead: 'Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long.' Cf. Amelia (1751; vIII. x) and 'Of the Remedy of Affliction for the Loss of Our Friends' (1743), where... | |
 | John Osborne - 1991 - Страниц: 116
...a good word from you? JP Frequently. You didn't listen. (Enter ALISON with bottle of wine.) CLIFF. "Let me know mine end, and the number of my days; that I may be certified how long I have to live." ALISON. "Certified" is right. CLIFF. "And verily every man living is altogether vanity." ALISON. Man.... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1972 - Страниц: 350
...Prospect, it is true, 1 Perhaps the Book of Wisdom 15:9 Cf. Ps. 39: 6, in the Book of Common Prayer: ' Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long.' Cf. Cicero, Tusc. Disp. i. xxxix. 94; Seneca, Ad Marc. xxi. 1; Plutarch, Ad Apoll. 113 ce. 2 Among... | |
 | Robert L. Ross - 1999 - Страниц: 476
...sometimes she would lean forward. and he felt her warmth. her firm diddies pressed against his back. "Lord. let me know mine end. and the number of my...that I may be certified how long I have to live." Mr. Brickie read. Certified was the word. decided Councilor Hogben looking at that old Ossie. Who stood... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - Страниц: 1160
...nothing: I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me. Psalm 59, v. 3 29 Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certiiied how long I have to live. Psalm 59, v. 5 30 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth... | |
 | Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer - 1999 - Страниц: 392
...before it flowed again, just like the moon tides — he must set off home for his last service to her. "Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days, that 1 may be certified how long I have to live." The Unes for the burial of the dead began echoing in his... | |
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Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. 
