| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 páginas
...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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs and her sons are blest ! The HUMAN LIFE. The lark has sung his carol in the sky, The bees have hummed their noontide lullaby;... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 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...well-spent hour! These, when the trembling spirit wings her fligbt, Pour round her path a stream of living li;bt ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of net,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Faney'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... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 páginas
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo 1 Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ; But can the wiles of art, the grasp of...of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realm* of rent, Where virtue triumphs, and her sun* are blest 1 " Pleaturet of Memory. Seneca says... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 páginas
...stars, which appear like silver. • 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? 3. These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light... | |
| John Aikin - 1852 - 792 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky j 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... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 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, Snatch the rich relicts of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 páginas
...sky ; If but a beam of sober Iteason play, Lo. Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the vilus of Art, the grasp of Power, .Snatch the rich relics...realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs and her sons are bleat! Still in the vale the Tillage bells ring round, Still in Llewellyn hall the jests resound; For... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh, Robert James Mackintosh - 1854 - 598 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!" The descriptive passages require indeed a closer inspection, and a more exercised eye, than those of... | |
| 1854 - 268 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 ! OLD AGE. The seas are quiet when the winds are o'er, So calm are we, when passions are no more !... | |
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