 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 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 boll I—GEAY.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 páginas
...hast seen Pull 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 OF ETON COLLEGE. 95 While some,... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 páginas
...hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margin 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 ?... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 páginas
...foremost now delight to cleave, 25 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 ? so While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 páginas
...pleasure trace ; The altar-tomb seen near the church, beside which two figures stand, covers the gvavc Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm,...shadows — shadows which are to the eye what echoes arc to the car — lying heavily upon the grass ! We passed too (though somewhat out of our road) '... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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... | |
 | 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; Sex. Emp. I,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1969 - 1278 páginas
...thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Desporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? I1 See HOMER 1 n 8. Cf C's con- epithets" in the Preface to Poems demnation of his own use of "double-... | |
 | 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." Wordsworth,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 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? (Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College) In the sweet shire of Cardigan, Not far from... | |
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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? 
