 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 roll useless o'er the verdant plain, Thus sanguine life is...  A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties - 162 psl.autoriai: James John Hissey - 1889 - 403 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | John Hugman - 1826 - 52 psl.
...Merblue. JH * OfOgygia, Fide the Heathen Mythology. SIMILITUDE BETWEEN LIFE, AND THE GAME OF BOWLS. LIFE, like the Game of Bowls, is but an end, > Which...let its course by reason's eye be plann'd ; Lest it rolls useless o'er the verdant plain, Like heedless Life — that finishes in vain. Know well your... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1889 - 472 psl.
...; should they not care for the schoolmaster's poetry, they have full licence to skip it. You maybe obliged to listen to a dull sermon or an uninteresting...green, Like those who loiter on life's public scene. Know well your bias : here the moral school Scarce needs a comment on the bowling rule. Play not too... | |
 | Humphrey J. Dingley - 1893 - 130 psl.
...Justin Pagitt's Memorandum BooH—see also StrutL (Similitnbe bettoee1t "gift ani the ©ame of $otuls. ' LIFE like the Game of Bowls, is but an end, Which...your hand, First let its course by reason's eye be planned; Lest it rolls useless o'er the verdant plain, Like heedless Life—that finishes in vain.... | |
 | 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...let its course by reason's eye be plann'd ; Lest it rolls useless o'er the verdant plain, Like heedless Life — that finishes in vain. Know well your... | |
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