 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...Brusli'd by the hand of rough Mischance ; Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ? " Poor moralist ! and what art tbou ? A solitary fly I Thy joys nu glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets. No... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Brushed by the hand of rough mischance Or chilled by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply...thy spring is gone, — We frolic while 'tis May. THE PLEASURE ARISING t'liOM VICISSITUDE. SMILES on past Misfortune's brow Soft Reflection's hand can... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply;...set, thy Spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May." LXIV. A SUMMER EVENING. And there follow'd some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...Brushed by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chilled by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind...set, thy spring is gone—- We frolic while 'tis May. ODE II. ON THE DEATH OP A PATOUHITI OAT, Drowned in a Tub tjf Gold Fishes. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's... | |
 | David Irving - 1836 - 432 pages
...passage, a poet of exquisite talents introduces an address from " the insect youth." Methinks I bear in accents low The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist!...youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— Having thus treated of the nature of personification, and of its different degrees, it remains to shew... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...Brushed by the hand of rough mischance ; Or cbill'd by age, their airy dance They leave in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply...set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May." Gay» Then, too, a bard of the preceding centuries introduces " the Shepherd's Holiday," the day we... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 874 pages
...hand of rough mischance ; Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave in dust to rest. Mi-thinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; "...No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy yonth is flown Thy sun is set, thy spring is goneWc frolic while 'tis May." » Gay. Then, too, a bard... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 382 pages
...can guess what he did with it : — he might well moralise on his bachelorship, and call himself " a solitary fly," — Thy joys no glittering female...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ! Collins was never a lover, and never married. His odes, with all their exquisite fancy and splendid... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 pages
...disorders, and it might be imbecility itself. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." u Poor moralist, and what art thou ? A solitary fly...female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets." Assuredly it would not have been a question whether these literary characters should have married,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 516 pages
...greatest disorders, and it might be imbecility itulf. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." " Poor moralist, and what art thou? A solitary fly !...glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded s-weete." Assuredly it would not have been a question whether these literary characters should have... | |
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But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist... 
