 | William Hone - 1837 - 874 páginas
...dust to rest. Mi-thinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; " Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy yonth is flown Thy sun is set, thy spring is goneWc frolic while 'tis May." » Gay. Then, too, a bard... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 382 páginas
...can guess what he did with it : — he might well moralise on his bachelorship, and call himself " a solitary fly," — Thy joys no glittering female...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ! Collins was never a lover, and never married. His odes, with all their exquisite fancy and splendid... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 páginas
...be imbecility itself. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." u Poor moralist, and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets." Assuredly it would not have been a question whether these literary characters should have married,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 páginas
...disorders, and it might be imbecility itself. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." " Poor moralist, and »hat art thou ? A solitary fly...female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets." Assuredly it would not have been a question whether these literary characters should have married,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 516 páginas
...might be imbecility itulf. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." " Poor moralist, and what art thou? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded s-weete." Assuredly it would not have been a question whether these literary characters should have... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side, Where... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 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. Dsedala funduntur flores examina circum, Lsetaque melliferam depopulantur humum ; Aliger hic miles... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 452 páginas
...be imbecility itself. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." " Poor moralist, and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thon of hoarded sweets." Assuredly it would not have been a question whether these literary characters... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 328 páginas
...rest. Hethinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : ' Poor moralist! and what art thoa? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets,...hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to duplay : On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— We frolic, while... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 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 female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweeU, No painted plumage to duplay : On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring... | |
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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... 
