 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work n shade, Were perilous to hear. He told of girls —...in gone down. He spake of plants that hourly change I [From ' Human Ufe.1} The lark has sung his carol in the sky, The bees have hummed their noontide... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Rogers, Mark Akenside - 1844 - 206 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...living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms o%rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES TO PLEASURES OF MEMORY. PART II. P. 87,1.15.... | |
 | 1844 - 288 páginas
...a fleeting eloud 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 Four round her path a stream of... | |
 | Sophocles, John Frederick Boyes - 1844 - 242 páginas
...her worst, there are relics of joy, Bright hours of the past, that she cannot destroy. Moore. Say, can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the rich relics of a well spent hour. Rogers' Pleasures of Memory. The same sentiment occurs in Pind. Olymp. ii. 29 ; Esdras... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 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. Books. CRAEBE. BLEST be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind.... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 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 FIRST PART. PAGE 9, LINE 13. Ye Household deities, $•i•. THESE were imagined to be the departed... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 páginas
...Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ' T:'re. when the trembling ••/-,-'' takes her fliglu, Pour round her path a stream of living light, And gild those pure and perfect realms of /-.-•, Where VIRTUK-- triumphs, and her son* are bUit. Varieties. 1. Costume, when once regulated... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 páginas
...J Thete, when the trembling spirit lakes her flight, Pour round her path a ftream of living lipht, And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest. Where VIRTUE— triumphs, and her sons are llrtt. Varieties. 1. Casfnmf, when once regulated by true fdcncf. and or/, remains in unchaneable good... | |
 | 1861 - 494 páginas
...call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the eky; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy...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, l'uur round her... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 páginas
...fleeting cloud obscure the akj ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work mulls away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour f These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Four round her path a stream of living light;... | |
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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?... 
