 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 144 Seiten
...miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear." Ex. 10. " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower — its bloom is shed," Examples 9 and 10, illustrate comparison. Ex. 11. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank ;... | |
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1848 - 556 Seiten
...They are so evanescent and so changeable, that it may almost be said they are " Like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever : Or like the borealis race, That flit ere ye can point the place." This renders them difficult to sketch, however I have endeavored to represent... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 Seiten
...poet presents him in the first scene. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 Seiten
...poet presents him in the first scene. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white,—then melts forever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or... | |
 | Thomas William Baxter AVELING - 1849 - 72 Seiten
...they are. Beautifully has si rare, but, alas ! unhappy poet, said, and he spake that which he knew, " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in a river, A moment white — then melt for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1849 - 310 Seiten
...EVANESCENT PLEASURE. Papaver, rhxas. Senu.a of 12 8Pecies— there ' two in the Levant, and one in BarBut pleasures are like Poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Burns. SENTIMENT. Time! Time! — in thy triumphal flight, How all life's phantoms flee away! The smile... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 Seiten
...their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tarn 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... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 Seiten
...fall, Arts fade— but Nature doth not die. Childe Harold — Canto 4, Stanza 3. BTRON. ROME. 40. — Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow fells in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 Seiten
...fall, Arts fade— but Nature doth not die. Childe Harold — Canto 4, Stanza 3. BYRON. ROUE. 40. — 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 forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | 1915 - 558 Seiten
...inanis qui visitur in aquisr momento temporis enascens simul et evanescens," which suggests Burns's Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever. A more expanded comparison between a bubble and the life of man will be found in Lucian's ' Charon,'... | |
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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 ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can pomt their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely... 
