| 1823 - 608 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 iweetl, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 páginas
...hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : ( Poor moralist 1 and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth, u flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. ' II. ON THE DEATH OF,A... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, 45 No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis Mav. 50 " Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward and downward, thwarting and convolv'd,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 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...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... | |
| 1826 - 310 páginas
...The sportive kind reply : ' Poor moralist ! and what art thou A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets,...thy spring is gone : . We frolic while 'tis May.' Gray. THE FIRST OF APRIL. WITH dalliance rude young Zephyr woos Coy May : full oft with kind excuse... | |
| William Hone - 1827 - 858 páginas
...reply ; " Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meet!, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...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... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 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...— We frolic, while 'tis May. ODE II. ON THE DEATH OI A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OP GOLD FISHES' 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest... | |
| 1827 - 516 páginas
...moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joya no glittering female meets, Thou hast no hive of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ;...is flown, Thy sun is set — thy spring is gone.' Now we say, that to reduce a poor man to this situation, under pretence of teaching him how to better... | |
| John Cole - 1827 - 166 páginas
...Methinks 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 thou of hoarded sweets, Thy painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set thy spring is gone—... | |
| William Hone - 1830 - 868 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...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... | |
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