 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...hand of rough mischance, Or chilled by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply :...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. ODE II. ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 páginas
...rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : ' Poor moralist ! and what art '.hou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets,...plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown j Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— <We frolic, while 'tis May.' II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 páginas
...hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; ' Poor Moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! * The character here applied by Gray to the beech is by no means appropriate, for no tree is so little... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 páginas
...hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply :...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. letter to H. Walpole, says: (see Walpole's Works, vol. v. p. 395.) " I send you a bit of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 páginas
...Mischanee, Or chill'd by Age, their airy danee They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in aceents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. letter to H. Walpole, says: (see Walpole's Works, vol. v. p. 395.) " I send you a bit of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 páginas
...hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply :...glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded swe'eta, No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 páginas
...hand of rough Mischance. Or chilled by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive, kind reply :...display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is get, thy spring is gone — II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 'T... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 páginas
...Moralist! and what art thou ? A solitary fly! Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display: Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone—- We frolic while 'tis May.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 páginas
...hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. 5 Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply, Poor...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. II.— ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A CHINA TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 1 'TWAS on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 páginas
...hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. 5 Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply, Poor...is set, thy spring is gone — • We frolic while 'tis May. II.— ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A CHINA TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 1 'TWAS on... | |
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But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist... 
