 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...accents low The sportive kind reply ? " Poor moralist ! and what art tbou ? A solitary fly I Thy joys nu glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May." ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEOK. YE distant spires, ye antique towers. That crown... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 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." LXIV. A SUMMER EVENING. And there follow'd some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come... | |
 | 1836 - 558 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...gone—- We frolic while 'tis May. ODE II. ON THE DEATH OP A PATOUHITI OAT, Drowned in a Tub tjf Gold Fishes. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest... | |
 | David Irving - 1836 - 432 páginas
...I bear 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...youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— Having thus treated of the nature of personification, and of its different degrees, it remains to shew... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 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." Gay» Then, too, a bard of the preceding centuries introduces " the Shepherd's Holiday," the day we... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 874 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...No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy yonth is flown Thy sun is set, thy spring is goneWc frolic while 'tis May." » Gay. Then, too, a bard... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 394 páginas
...did with it : — he might well moralise on his bachelorship, and call himself " a solitary fly," — Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ! Collins was never a lover, and never married. His odes, with all their exquisite fancy and splendid... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 páginas
...is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." u 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 have been a question whether these literary characters should have married,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 516 páginas
...is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." " Poor moralist, and what art thou? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded s-weete." Assuredly it would not have been a question whether these literary characters should have... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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... | |
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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... 
