 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...  Miscellaneous Works of Sir James Mackintoch - Seite 258von Sir James Mackintosh - 1871 - 596 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 Seiten
...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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! Rogers. JULIUS CAESAR. IT is possible to be a very great man and to be still very inferior to Julius... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 Seiten
...obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fiiiry frost-worlTmelts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES. PART I. Page 2, col. l, line 31. How oft, when purple evening tinged the west, VIRGIL, in... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But cnn the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour f These, when Ihe trembling spirit wings her flight, Four round her path a stream of living light;... | |
 | 1841 - 358 Seiten
...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...rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! 16* NOTES TO PLEASURES OF MEMORY. PART II. P. 169, 1. 15. These still exist, &c. There is a future... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1841 - 416 Seiten
...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...realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blessed. True Dignity. — BEATTIE. VAIN man, is grandeur given to gay attire 1 Then let the butterfly... | |
 | 1841 - 360 Seiten
...fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the rich relies of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit...rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! 16* NOTES TO PLEASURES OF MEMORY. PART II. P. 169, 1. 15. These still exist, &c. There is a future... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 352 Seiten
...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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. P. 26, 1. 7. Haw oft, when purple evening tinged the west, VIRGIL, in one... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 Seiten
...melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relies of a well-spent hour 1 These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight,...realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons arc blest! NOTES. Note 1, page 2, col. 2. Up aprtnes, at every step. to claim a tear. I iame to the... | |
 | 1843 - 374 Seiten
...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...These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour roundJier path a stream of living light, And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where virtue... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can s to hear. He told of girls — a happy rout ! Who...in gone down. He spake of plants that hourly change I [From ' Human Ufe.1} The lark has sung his carol in the sky, The bees have hummed their noontide... | |
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