 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1838 - 128 Seiten
...by the headlong river, Which flashes in the solar beam — A moment bright, then gone for ever.* " Or like the snow-falls in the river — A moment white, then melts for ever." Burns. 55 PEACE is a phantom of the brain, A charm, the hours of sleep invading : We wake, and stretch... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 Seiten
...wi' pleasure ; Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But e, For still th' important end of life They equally may answer 5 A man may j Or like .the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1838 - 502 Seiten
...indeed rallied us upon the occasion ; and I thought Julia never appeared half so beautiful as now. " But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is shed." So saith Robert Burns ; and, truth to speak, his distich was never more effectually verified than at... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1838 - 282 Seiten
...rapaver, rnasas. two in &e Levant, ^j one ^ Bar . bary, and one in Labrador. EVANESCENT PLEASURE. But pleasures are like Poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. 1 SENTIMENT. Time ! Time!—in thy triumphal flight, Burns. Fame's meteor beam—and Fancy's ray; They... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 Seiten
...demonstration ; and a description in Homer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melt forever ; Or, like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place ; Or, like the rainbow's... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 Seiten
...taste and genius that blessed the sweet charities of private life by which I was then surrounded. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white— then melts for ever. This second edition is published with... | |
 | Albert Fenton - 1839 - 364 Seiten
...cavalry cantonment of Sultanpore away on our starboard bow. 'Tis gone ! — disappeared like a vision, " Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place." And see ! — here is the Fort of Chunar on the rock to our left — Chunar, so celebrated for its... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 Seiten
...enchantments, that gave Nourmahal the proud lord of the east for her slave. PLEASURES.— BURNS. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is sped ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | 1841 - 282 Seiten
...virtue, and several domestic comforts, which he was capable of feeling, and therefore deserved to enjoy. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...— then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, Thnt flit ere you can point their place : Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 Seiten
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom a shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit era you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed... | |
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Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit... 
