Let the world slide, let the world go;
A fig for care and a fig for woe!
If I can't pay, why I can owe.
And death makes equal the high and low.
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage,
Which God and nature do with actors fill.
Nor is this lower world but a huge inn,
And men the rambling passengers.
There are two worlds; the world that we can
measure with line and rule, and the world that
we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
Leigh Hunt—Men, Women, and Books. Fiction and Matter of Fact.
The nations are as a drop of a bucket.
Isaiah. XL. 15.
World without end.
Isaiah. XLV. 17.
The visible world is but man turned inside out
that he may be revealed to himself.
Henry James (the Elder). Prom J. A. Kellog—Digest of the- Philosophy of- Henry
James.
| seealso = (See also Bbowne, Notes)
| topic = World
| page = 914
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Douglas Jerrold—Story of a Feather. In
Punch. Vol. V. P. 55.
I never have sought the world; the world was
not to seek me.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson.
(1783)
| topic = World
| page = 914
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>This world, where much is to be done and little
to be known.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Prayers and Meditations.
Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts.
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna
of civilization I hate and despise, it is a man of the world.
Henry Arthur Jones—The Liars. Act I.
| seealso = (See also Young)
| topic = World
| page = 914
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Upon the battle ground of heaven and hell
I palsied stand.
Marie Josephine—Rosa Mystica. P. 231.
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the ram;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again,
Sweet wife.
No, never come over again.
| author = Charles Kingsley
| work = Dolcino to Margaret.
For to admire an' for to see,
For to be'old this world so wide—
It never done no good to me,
But I can't drop it if I tried!
Kipling—For to Admire. In The Seven Seas.
If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world had never been.
Leland—The World and the World.
It is an ugly world. Offend
Good people, how they wrangle,
The manners that they never mend,
The characters they mangle.
They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod,
And go to church on Sunday—
And many are afraid of God—
And more of Mrs. Grundy.
Frederick Locker-Lampson—The Jester's
Plea.
O what a glory doth this world put on
For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth
Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks
On duties well performed, and days well spent!
| author = Longfellow
| work = Autumn.
Glorious indeed is the world of God around
us, but more glorious the world of God within
us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the
poet's native land.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Hyperion. Bk. I. Ch. VIIL
One day with life and heart,
Is more than time enough to find a world.
| author = Lowell
| work = Columbus. Last lines.
Flammantia mcenia mundi.
The flaming ramparts of the world.
Lucretius—De Rerum Natura. I. 73.
When the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Marlowe—Faustus. L. 543.
The world in all doth but two nations bear,
The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere.
Marvell—The Loyal Scot.
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above,
And if we did our duty, it might be as full of
love.
Gerald Massey—This World.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = | text = <poem>The world's a stage on which all parts are played.
Thos. Middleton—A Game of Chess. Act V. Sc. II.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Du Bartas)
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.
| author = Milton | work = Comus. L. 5. Hanging in a golden chain
This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.
| author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 1,051. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Measure for Measure)
