His love for his wife had been nothing more than one of those vehement and headstrong fancies, which, in self-indulgent men, sometimes result in marriage, and which seldom outlive the first few months of that life-long connection.

We cannot afford to lose these heathen testimonies to Christian truth; or to hush the glorious utterances of Muse and Sibyl which have justly outlived "the drums and tramplings of a hundred triumphs."

The things of earth are false, as fair, And glitter to betray, They scarce outlive the sunny glare Of one short summer day.

"Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors.