 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 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, that bring... | |
 | 1852 - 248 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 labors ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring... | |
 | 1853 - 560 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, that bring... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 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. This,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 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 ? 6. 1720. i The Odes of Collins are fuller of the fine and sponta.'. 1769. f neous enthusiasm of genius,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 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 boll I—GEAY. This is the only stanza that appears to me very objectionable in point of diction. This,.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 páginas
...Gray's Ode to Eton College : — " What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed i 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 another but the cares and details of business, with... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 páginas
...wave? Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green 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 To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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, that bring... | |
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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... 
