 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 596 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;... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 339 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 - 426 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
...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 - 760 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 - 305 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... | |
 | 1851 - 183 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... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1851
...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 - 340 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 - 829 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... | |
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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?... 
