 | 1835 - 932 pages
...Heeling cloud obscure the sky ; If but n beam of sober reason play, Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work mells away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the ridi relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her... | |
 | 1836 - 388 pages
...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...Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour 1 These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light ;... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1838 - 332 pages
...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...flight. Pour round her path a stream of living light ; i And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest !... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...call our own. Lighter than air, hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ¡ l. That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble, Has cost...out, for a* thy trouble, But house or bald, To thole well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Pour round her path a stream of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...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...wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the rich relies of a well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Pour round her path... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 510 pages
...call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a 8eering cloud 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 606 pages
...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 I Bat can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These,... | |
 | 1841 - 360 pages
...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...wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the rich relies of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...dust to dust ;' but half its talc untold ; Time tempers not its terrors." BVBON'S Agt f)/Brtmzf. I " en is adopted, with some alteration, from an old Scottish song, beginning thu ROOKRS' Plftitvm <>/ Memory. * MS. — " Thonph oft he stops to wonder still That his old legends have... | |
 | 1843 - 374 pages
...interests for ever ! 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...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... | |
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Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! SAMUEL ROGERS. 
