| John Aikin - 1821 - 358 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 murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 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 hall ? AVhile some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 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 murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
| 1823 - 592 páginas
...something in his own endless manner) and of Gil Bias of Santillanc. Over these (the last thing before hi 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 any thing to interest him from one year's... | |
| 1823 - 592 páginas
...something in his own endless manner) and of Gil lilas of Santilbne. Over these (the last thing before h¿ goes to bed at night) he smokes a pipe, and meditates...of the admired lines in Gray's Ode to Eton College : — " AVhai idle progeny succeed To chfuc the rolling circle's speed Oi" urge the dying ball ?" A... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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,... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave i The captive linnet which enthrall What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball 1 While snme on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 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? See a very curious 4to volume on the ancient games of skill by Mr. Revely. See also Our... | |
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