Years. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Years


Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. Ovid.—Meta. Book X. Fable 9. (Riley.)	1
Jumping o’er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass. Shakespeare.—King Henry V., Chorus.	2
Years have not seen, Time shall not see, The hour that tears my soul from thee. Byron.—Bride of Abydos, Canto I. Stanza 11.	3
Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigour from the limb; And life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 8.	4
Years following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away. Pope.—Imitations of Horace, Book II. Epi. II. Line 72.	5
I am declin’d Into the vale of years. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (He imagines that a reason for Desdemona’s supposed love of Cassio.)	6