 Life, like the Game of Bowls, is but an end, Which to play well, this moral verse attend. Throw not your bowl too rashly from your hand, First let its course by reason's eye be plann'd ; Lest it rolls useless o'er the verdant plain, Like heedless Life...  Original poems, in the amatory, heroic, pathetic, and other styles. By a ... - 25 psl.autoriai: John Hugman - 1826Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | James John Hissey - 1889 - 462 psl.
...too short you but obstruct the green, Like those who loiter on life's public scene. CHARACTERS. 163 Know well your bias : here the moral school Scarce needs a comment on the bowling rule. Play not too straight : in life observe the same, The narrow-minded often miss their aim. Nor yet too wide ; with... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1889 - 468 psl.
...too short you but obstruct the green, Like those who loiter on life's public scene. CHARACTERS. 163 Know well your bias : here the moral school Scarce needs a comment on the bowling rule. Play not too straight : in life observe the same, The narrow-minded often miss their aim. Nor yet too wide ; with... | |
 | Humphrey J. Dingley - 1893 - 130 psl.
...useless o'er the verdant plain, Like heedless Life—that finishes in vain. Know well your bias:—here the moral school Scarce needs a comment on the bowling rule; Play not too wide, with caution eye your cast, Use not extent of Green, or Life to waste: Nor yet too straight,— in Life observe... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - 1907 - 470 psl.
...infinite — it calls for so many good qualities that the poet has compared it with the game of Life — "Life, like the Game of Bowls, is but an end, Which...the bowling rule ; Play not too wide, with caution eye your cast, Use not extent of Green, or Life, to waste : Nor yet too straight — in Life observe... | |
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