 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...kind reply ; Poor moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female greets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May. CONTENT. A PASTORAL. BY CUNNINGHAM. O'ER moorlands and mountains, rude, barren, and bare, As wilder'd... | |
 | 1818 - 596 páginas
...g.ittcring female meets, No liive hast thou of hearted sweets, No painted plumage to display ; Oil hasty wings thy youth is flown, Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May." FROM CAMPBELL'S PLEASURES OF HOPE. At summer's eve, when Heaven's ferial bow Spans with bright arch... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 páginas
...hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; " Poor moralist ! and what art thou ! A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May." ODE FOR MUSIC. I-ERFORMED IV THE SENATE-HOUSE AT CAMBRIDGE, JULY 1. 1769, AT THE INSTALLATION... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 páginas
...The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'riug female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets...painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is tlown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— We frolic While 'tis May. DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 páginas
...moralist ! and what art thou ? •<• ' , . ., ••»* . l*Tt..Is A solitary fly. • , ..•. • • Thy joys no glittering female meets, ' No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, J 'K No painted plumage to display : ?9fjn hasty *in»i thy youth is flown, x *i', ,i\,;i« Zi.it p^by... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 páginas
...I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist! and what art thou ? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. TWAS on a lofty vase's side, Where... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 páginas
...colouring, but the exact plain truth,1" and Gray's, " Poor moralist, and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets." Assuredly it would not be a question whether these literary characters should have married, had not... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 598 páginas
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art tin m ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! I.... | |
 | 1823 - 622 páginas
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art ihou ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! 1.... | |
 | 1823 - 598 páginas
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art thou ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! TABLE... | |
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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... 
