 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...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 To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 páginas
...a literal, prosaic, Cockney translation of the admired lines in Gray's Ode to Eton College : — " What idle progeny 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 end to... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...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...the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring... | |
 | 1852 - 248 páginas
...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...the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labors ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 páginas
...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...the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labors ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring... | |
 | 1852 - 460 páginas
...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...the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labors ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 páginas
...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 To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 páginas
...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 To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
 | 1853 - 560 páginas
...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 To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 páginas
...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 To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
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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? 
