| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 páginas
...hand of rough Mischance, Or ohill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply :...! and what art thou? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'riug female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets No painted plumage to display : On hasty... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 páginas
...subsequent passage, a poet of exquisite talents introduces an address from " the insect youth." Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : :•?!*."' • Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? •<• ' , . ., ••»* . l*Tt..Is A solitary fly. • , ..•. • • Thy joys no glittering... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 páginas
...with gold. Milton's Paradise Lost, book 7. J While insects from the threshold preach, &c. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor...Sun is set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. TWAS on a lofty vase's... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 páginas
...and it might be imbecility itself. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth,1" and Gray's, " Poor moralist, and what art thou ? A solitary fly...female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets." Assuredly it would not be a question whether these literary characters should have married, had not... | |
| 1822 - 694 páginas
...timeless, 1 should droop, and die* In lilence — but upbraid thee not. E. 21 ON MAGAZINE WRITERS. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply, Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? I can scarcely conceive a nobler and more inspiring sight thun that of the man of genius in the solitude... | |
| 1823 - 598 páginas
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art thou ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! TABLE... | |
| 1823 - 622 páginas
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art ihou ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! 1.... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 598 páginas
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art tin m ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! I.... | |
| 1823 - 608 páginas
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and -what art thou ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded iweetl, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 páginas
...leave, in dost to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : ( Poor moralist 1 and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth, u flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. ' II. ON THE DEATH OF,A... | |
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