 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 páginas
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ^ A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. ODE II. ON THE DEATH OI A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OP GOLD FISHES' 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side,... | |
 | 1827 - 516 páginas
...moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joya no glittering female meets, Thou hast no hive of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ;...is flown, Thy sun is set — thy spring is gone.' Now we say, that to reduce a poor man to this situation, under pretence of teaching him how to better... | |
 | John Cole - 1827 - 166 páginas
...leave in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, Thy painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set thy spring is gone—... | |
 | 1829 - 520 páginas
...none can guess what he did with it; — he might well moralize on his bachelorship, and call himself ' a solitary fly,' — ' Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast th-iu of hoarded sweets. No painted plumage to display 1* " Collins was never a lover, and never married.... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 868 páginas
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; " Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May." Gay. Then, too, a bard of the preceding centuries introduces " the Shepherd's Holiday," the day we... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...accents low The sportive kind reply ? " Poor moralist ! and what art tbou ? A solitary fly I Thy joys nu glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May." ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEOK. YE distant spires, ye antique towers. That crown... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 páginas
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply; ' Poor Moralist! and what art thou ? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering...set, thy Spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May." LXIV. A SUMMER EVENING. And there follow'd some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come... | |
 | 1836 - 558 páginas
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply, Poor moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...thy spring is gone—- We frolic while 'tis May. ODE II. ON THE DEATH OP A PATOUHITI OAT, Drowned in a Tub tjf Gold Fishes. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side,... | |
 | David Irving - 1836 - 432 páginas
...the insect youth." Methinks I bear in accents low The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist! and what art thou ? A solitary fly. Thy joys no glittering...youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— Having thus treated of the nature of personification, and of its different degrees, it remains to shew... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 páginas
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; " Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May." Gay» Then, too, a bard of the preceding centuries introduces " the Shepherd's Holiday," the day we... | |
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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... 
