 | William Cowper - 1900 - 110 páginas
...best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spends itself, comparing still 1 Intercepting now. 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 age 1 Thou hadst within thy bole solid... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 páginas
...the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. 85 Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. 90 Time was when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root — and time has been When... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 916 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...state \ Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence j Slow into such magnificent decay. Time was when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 páginas
...the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. 85 Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. 90 Time was when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root — and time has been When... | |
 | William Cowper - 1908 - 632 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...magnificent decay. Time was when, settling on thy Ipnf, " fly _jCjailLLaEale_thee_to tlig.rojBl— anj_time_hasj)cen When tempests could ngt. At thy... | |
 | James Alexander Roy - 1914 - 196 páginas
...blank verse is the highest expression of his technique. 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 had been When tempests could not . . . May 1791. Thine arms have left thee. Winds have... | |
 | Edmund James Banfield - 1919 - 396 páginas
...yourself if you hearken attentively when neither the sea nor air makes competitive noises. ANCESTRAL SHADE Time was when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake...root — and time has been When tempests could not." COWPER. IF it were possible to recall the spirits of the departed of this Isle to solemn session and... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 492 páginas
...variety of pause, and many single verses of high nobility : Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...declension thence. Slow, into such magnificent decay. Cowper failed to make an ending ; after finishing with the oak, he starts on a curious analysis, which... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 páginas
...variety of pause, and many single verses of high nobility : Thought cannot spend_ itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. Cowper failed to make an ending ; after finishing with the oak, he starts on a curious analysis, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1805 - 974 páginas
...Of their best tone their dissolution o« e. Thought cannot spend itself comparing stiU The great ami little of thy lot, thy growth From almost nullity...state Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence alow into such magnificent deçà}-. Tiirc Time was, when settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee... | |
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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... 
