Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour... The Poems of Samuel Rogers: With a Memoir - Página 335por Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 340 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 222 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky; G6 If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! «7 NOTES. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 20, 1. 7. Awake lut one, and lo, what myriads rise!... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 208 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch...trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path 3 stream of living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1802 - 308 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, LO, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch-...Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 20, 1. 7. Awake tut one, and lo, what myriads rise; WHEN a traveller,... | |
| 1856 - 634 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest.' These are the lines which Mackintosh, thereby giving the measure of his own poetic feeling, used to... | |
| 1814 - 556 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch...; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! * The descriptiVe passages of this classical poem, require... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! THE END. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE 1. So when the daring sons of science, &c He wept ; but the... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1810 - 180 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! 67 NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 14, line 1. Up springs at every step to claim a tear— I... | |
| Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 464 páginas
...play, La, fancy's fairy frost-work melts away. But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Siyitch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when...those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumph?, and her sons are blest!" WHILE the late singular events were passing at the castles of Valleroy... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1815 - 300 páginas
..." If but a beam of sober reason play, " Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work melts away. " But can the wile of art, the grasp of power, " Snatch the rich relics..." Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest." To you, my young friends, who are acquiring an education, I cannot express the peculiar worth and importance... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 276 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well- spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
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