 | 1876 - 402 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 relics of a well - spent hour P These, when the trembling spirit wings his flight, Pour round his path a stream... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work the margin of the solemn flood ' What rural objects steal upon the sight! What rising well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Pour round her path a stream of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...good man walk'd innoxious through his age. 1'OPE. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. POPE. Can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the...well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings his flight, Pour round his path a stream of living light, And gild those pure and perfect realms of... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 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...rest, where Virtue triumphs and her sons are blest. Dislike Wearinesi iDelicht SUislfke Pleasure Qentleneu SForce— 4arch> ness Explanation Gentleness... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...clond obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's ffiry frost-wurk melts away I But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch...those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue trinmphs, aud her sons are blest ! From 'Human Life.' The lark has sung his carol in the sky, The bees... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1881 - 600 páginas
...soul to the keeping of Him in whom he had trusted, until that final day when all shall awake in "... those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons aro blest." Nor was that hour far distant, for on the morning of July 29th, 1833, his spirit took its... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 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 ! FROM 'HUMAN LIFE.' When by a good man's grave I muse alone, Methinks an Angel sits upon the stone,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 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 ! FROM 'HUMAN LIFE.' When by a good man's grave I muse alone, Methinks an Angel sits upon the stone,... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 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...trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path astream of living light, And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest. [blest. Where Virtue triumphs... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 páginas
...front-w^rk melts awav ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of rower, .Snatch the rich relics of a wen-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight,...perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her eons are blest 1 From 'Human Life." The lark has sung his carol in the sky, The bees havo hummed their... | |
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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?... 
