 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which intkraH ly by an oversight of the transcriber. flying ball I While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply "Gainst graver hours,... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral 1 What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying hall? • Etui Hsurjr UK Sixth, founder of ttw CoVwp, While some on earnest business beat Their... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 páginas
...something in his own endless manner) and of Gil Bias of Santillane. Over these (the last thing before he goes to bed at night) he smokes a pipe, and meditates...succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed Or urge the flying ball ?" A man shut up all his life in his shop, without anything to interest him from one year's... | |
 | 1847 - 490 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave With pMant arm thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthrall.' What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? " While some on urgent business bent Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
 | François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1848 - 488 páginas
...soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames. » * » * » What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? ***** Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm tliy glassy wave 7 The captive lianet which enthral 1 What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1850 - 324 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? ' But now, on the Sabbath, all was still ! the dew, unmarked by a single footstep ; the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 páginas
...something in his own endless manner) and of Gil Bias of Santillane. Over these (the last thing before he goes to bed at night) he smokes a pipe, and meditates...succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ] " A man shut up all his life in his shop, without anything to interest him from one year's... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent. Their murm'ring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours... | |
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Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral? What idle progeny succeed... 
