 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 páginas
...sweetest light of summer shone, — A rude and brief inscription mark'd the stone : — ' " To count, with passing shade, the hours, I plac'd the dial 'mid the...the sight impart Its pensive moral to thy heart!" ' • ' Just he<ird to trickle through a covert near, And soothing, with perpetual lapse, the ear,... | |
 | 1814 - 774 páginas
...sweetest light of summer shone, — A rude and brief inscription marked the stone :— " To count, with passing shade, the hours, I plac'd the dial 'mid the...let the sight impart Its pensive moral to thy heart !" Just heard to trickle through a covert near, And soothing, with perpetual lapse, the ear, A fount,... | |
 | 1821 - 542 páginas
...sweetest light of summer shone— A rude and brief inscription mark'd the stout — To count, with passing shade, the hours, I plac'd the dial 'mid the...That one by one, came forth and died, Blooming and withering by Us side. Mortal, let the sight impart Its pensive moral to thy heart. The coincidence... | |
 | 1824 - 452 páginas
...A rude and brief inscription marked the stone — To count, with passing shade, the hours, I placed the dial 'mid the flowers; That one by one came forth and died, Blooming and with'ring by its side. Mortal, let the sight impart !,\.l . Its pensive moral to thy heart. Or, as the author... | |
 | 1821 - 370 páginas
...brief inscription uiark'd the stoneTo count, with passing shade, the hours, I placed the dial 'inii the flowers ; That one by one, came forth and died, Blooming and withering by its side. Mortal, let the sight impart Its pensive moral to thy heart The coincidence... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 páginas
...rude and brief inscription mark'd the stone : — " To count, with passing shade, the hours, I placed tle ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. XIX. F withering, round its side. Mortal, let the sight impart Its pensive moral to thy heart !" Just heard... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 páginas
...rude and brief inscription mark'd the stone:— " To count, with passing shade, the hours, I placed the dial 'mid the flowers; That, one by one, came forth, and died, Blooming, and withering, round its side. Mortal, let the sight impart Its pensive moral to thy heart!" Just heard... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 páginas
...placed the dial 'mid the flowers ; That, one hy one, came forth, and died, Blooming, and withering, he was an only child — her !" Just heard to trickle tbrough a covert near, And soothing, with perpetual lapse, the ear, A fount,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1848 - 906 páginas
...the dial 'midst the flowers, Which one by one came forth and died, Still withering round its antient side : Mortal, let the sight impart Its pensive moral to thy heart ! BRUNO.' " You now pass through a completely embowered filbert-walk to a large pond, into which, at... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 páginas
...rude and brief inscription mark'd the stone : — " To count, with passing shade, the hours, I placed the dial 'mid the flowers ; That, one by one, came forth, and died, Blooming, and withering, round its side. Mortal, let the sight impart IU pensive moral to thy heart !" Just heard... | |
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Two mossy pines, high bending, interwove Their aged and fantastic arms above. In front, amid the gay surrounding flowers, A dial counted the departing hours, On which the sweetest light of summer shone, — A rude and brief inscription... 
