 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...  Country life [poems]. - Pàgina 71per Country life - 1873 - 147 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pàgines
...hand of rough Mischance; Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave in dust to rest. Mi-thinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; "...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May." ODE FOR MUSIC. I-ERFORMED IV THE SENATE-HOUSE AT CAMBRIDGE, JULY 1. 1769, AT THE INSTALLATION... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...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 side, Where... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 598 pàgines
...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 - 622 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | 1823 - 598 pàgines
...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 - 608 pàgines
...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... | |
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