 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1844 - 384 páginas
...did with it:—he might well moralize on his bachelorship, and call himself " a solitary fly,"— The joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 páginas
...l hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply: Poor moralist l and what art thou? A solitary fly l Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thy spring is gone— We frolic, while 'tis May. ODE II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...The sportive kind reply : Poor Moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets,...display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sbn is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. GOLDSMITH. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...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. GRAY. 1. " It is a happy world after all. The air.'the earth, the water, teem with delightful existence.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 páginas
...dust to rest. 40 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. so Gray, in a letter to H. Walpole, says : (see Walpole's Works, vol. vp 395.) " I send you a bit of... | |
 | Henry Drury - 1851 - 386 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...youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone : ARUNTDINES CАЛ11. D..edala funduntur flores examina circum, Laetaque melliferam depopulantur humum... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 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 A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 páginas
...beech is by no means appropriate, for no tree is so little or so seldom either rude or moss-grown. Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thy Spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May.' GRAY, THE FLOWER AND THE WILLOW. A LOVELY flower of rainbow hue Beneath a weeping-willow grew, But... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 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. letter to H. Walpole, says: (see Walpole's Works, vol. v. p. 395.) " I send you a bit of a thing for... | |
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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... 
