 | 1861 - 494 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the eky; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rieh relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, l'uur round her... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 páginas
...Poem : — " Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions fly, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the akj ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work mulls away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 páginas
...conspicuous and admired, " I leave life without regret." Lighter than air, Hope's summer visions fly, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of...Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling Spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...alone — The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air hope's summer visions fly, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of...art, the grasp of power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
 | 1861 - 488 páginas
...alone, The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rieh relics of a well-spent... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 páginas
...of that blessing is elegantly delineated: — Lighter than air, Hope's summer visions fly ; If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky, If but a beam of sober reason p'ay, — Lo ! fancy's fairy frost-work melts away. Compare these verses with Warburton's Inquiry into... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 páginas
...and elegant lines which close the Poem : — " Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions fly, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of...Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 páginas
...alone; The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, hope's summer visions die, If but , natch the rich relics of a well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Pour... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 páginas
...alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of...Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light;... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 328 páginas
...alone; The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of...Art, the grasp of Power Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
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Lighter than air, Hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour... 
