| Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 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 ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave with pliant arm the glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed to chase the rolling circle's speed, or urge the flying ball?1 The ccesural 1 pause is found in different parts of the line. On the first syllable ;... | |
| William Spalding - 1862 - 438 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave f The captive linnet which enthral I What idle progeny succeed, To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? b. 1T20. ) The Odes of Collins are fuller of the fine and spoutad. 17S9. f neous enthusiasm... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 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 ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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? 1 " That Is, the <w/of whose (mm, the «fc«l« of whose froM, the/linxra of whose siaBi.... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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,... | |
| Harold Arthur Harris - 1972 - 328 páginas
...From modem times we have the evidence of Gray that Eton boys bowled hoops in the eighteenth century : What idle progeny succeed / To chase the rolling circle's speed / Or urge the flying ball? ('Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'). 89 Eur., Medea, 46; Dio Chrys. XII, 37;... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1969 - 1278 páginas
...demnation of his own use of "double- (1797): PW (EHC) 11 1 145. The captive linnet which enthrall? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? This is the only stanza that appears to me very objectionable in point of diction. This,... | |
| Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 páginas
...of complex effects: What passion cannot music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? Thus Thomas Gray recalls boyhood games without having to use the low vernacular "hoop."... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 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 ? — GRAY. This is the only stanza that appears to me very objectionable in point of diction.... | |
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