 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 páginas
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...state Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence, MOW, into such magnificent decay. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 páginas
...ACORN; AN APOLOGUE. " Thou wast a bauble once ; — a cup and ball, Which babes might play with : ****** Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could...; — and time has been, When tempests could not." COWPER'S Yardley Oaf:. A. HIGH wind shook the last acorn from an old oak. In the following night, the... | |
 | William Eastmead - 1824 - 536 páginas
...gulp. But fate thy growth decreed. -— •-•• Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods. Time was when settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root— and time has been When tempest could cot. At thy firmest age Thou hast within thy bole solid contents celt, an ornament of... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824 - 230 páginas
...APOLOGUE. Thou wast a bauble once;—a cup and ball, Which babes might play with :——— ******. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root j—and time has been, When tempests could not." COWPEB'S Yardley Oak. A HIGH wind shook the last acorn... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 páginas
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost nullity into a state Of matchless grandenr, and declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. Time was, when, settling on thy... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 326 páginas
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root—and time has been When tempests could not. At thy firmest ago Thou hadst within thy bole solid... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1826 - 484 páginas
...in the bud. It will then be seen that what Cowper said of his oak might be applied to most of them : Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could...root — and time has been When tempests could not. ALFRED THE GREAT. — When the early period in which he lived, and the disadvantages under which he... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1826 - 582 páginas
...in the bud. It will then be seen that what Cowper said of his oak might be applied to most of them : Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root—and time has been When tempests could not. ALFRED THE GREAT—When the early period in which... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 páginas
...to the cause Of their hest tone their dissolution oweThought caunot spen;t itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...a fly Could shake thee to the root— and time has hren When tempests could not. At thy firmest age Thou hadst within thy hole solid contents, That might... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 páginas
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought caunot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost nullity into a state Of matcbless grandenr, and declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. Time was, when, settling... | |
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Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost nullity into a state Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could... 
