 | Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 páginas
...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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest. ROGERS. CHAP. V. THIS WORLD IS, AND OUGHT TO BE, AN UNSATISFTING PORTION. Think we, or think we not,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...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...realms of rest Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blessed. Boon*. Samuel Rogers was born in London, in 17C2. lie is a man of liberal for • tune, and... | |
 | 1861 - 488 páginas
...reine Friedensreich verschönen, Wo Siegeskränze wehn der Tugend Söhnen. *) (Alexander Schmidt.) *) „Hail, Memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine From...can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rieh relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 páginas
...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, natch the rich relics of a well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Pour... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 328 páginas
...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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES THE FIRST PA.RT. Page 9, line 8. Ye Household Deities ! &o. THESE were imagined to be the departed... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1851 - 202 páginas
...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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES TO PLEASURES OF MEMORY. PART II. P. 87, 1. 15. These still exist, &c. THERE is a future Existence... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1851 - 196 páginas
...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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES TO PLEASURES OF MEMORY, PART II. P. 87, 1. 15. These still exist, &c. THERE is a future Existence... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 354 páginas
...cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts awav ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES TO PLEASURES OF MEMORY. PART II. P. 98, 1. 1. These still eiitt, &c THERE is a future Existence... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1851 - 854 páginas
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, 1м, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of...perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her eons are blest 1" The descriptive passages require, indeed, a closer inspection, and a more exercised... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 páginas
...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...; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, When Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! " " VOYAGE OP COLUMBUS," &C. 49 The " Epistle to a Friend,"... | |
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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?... 
