 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 208 pagine
...when most alone; The only pleasures we can call our own.' Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 222 pagine
...call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; G6 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1802 - 308 pagine
...when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a...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... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pagine
...moral, ten* der, and elegant lines which close the Poems. ' Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions fly, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If...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... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pagine
...when most alone, The only pleasures we can 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 ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 pagine
...when most alone, The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a...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... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 pagine
...our own ! Lighter than air Hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; It but a beam of sober reason play, Lo ! Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! 2. It is often found, that a fine genius has but a feeble memory : for, where the genius is bright,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 276 pagine
...when most alone; The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die. If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a...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... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pagine
...nlone ; The only pleasures we can cajl our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If bjijt a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of...Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Pow'rr Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when- the trembling... | |
 | 1820 - 438 pagine
...swill'd sot drops senseless on the ground ! EUBULUS. Thoughts on a Well-Spent Life. BY S. ROGERS. ESQ. Lighter than air Hope's summer visions fly, If but...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... | |
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If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away... 
