 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
 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 458 Seiten
...(_Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? _J These, when the trembling spirit wings her Sight, Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And...those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue trinmphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. Page 6, line 27. Te Household Deities,... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1856 - 362 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 relics of a well- spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 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.4* 5. — AMBITION. — Byron. He who ascends to mountain-tops27 shall find The loftiest peaks... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 Seiten
...of Art, the grasp of Power, Snateh the rich relies of a well-spent hour ? These, when the tremhling spirit wings her flight. Pour round her path a stream...those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue trinmphs and her sons are hlest I The fanu. HUMAN LIFE. The lark has sung his carol in the sky. The... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Paige - 1857 - 362 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 relics of a well-spent hour ? MY I)EAR FRIENDS : after preaching, on a peculiar plan, for so long a time as I have, you might,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 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." These are the lines which Mackintosh, thereby giving the measure of his own poetic feeling, used to... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 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." These are the lines which Mackintosh, thereby giving the measure of his own poetic feeling, used to... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1858 - 156 Seiten
...fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relicts of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit...Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. BY THOMAS CAMPBELL. THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. ANALYSIS. THE Poem opens with... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1858 - 616 Seiten
...awny ! But can the wiles of Art. the grasp of Power, Sm'cli the rich n lies of a welt-spent hour f These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight,...gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where V'inue triumphs, and her sons are blest!" The descriptive passages require indeed a closer inspection,... | |
 | Calcutta univ - 1859 - 254 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. Page 12, line 3. For this young FOSCAM, fyc. He was suspected of murder, and at Venice suspicion... | |
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