 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 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. letter to H. Walpole, says: (see Walpole's Works, vol. v. p. 395.) " I send you a bit of a thing for... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 páginas
...lib. cxv. : "HA? yap & j3('of 6iifiof 'Emrepav ityei. Plato has the same metaphorical expression : i II. * ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OP GOLD FIsHEs. [On a favourite cat called Selima, that fell into a China Tub with gold fishes in it,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 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 thou of hoarded swe'eta, No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 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...display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is get, thy spring is gone — II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 'T... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 páginas
...Moralist! and what art thou ? A solitary fly! Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display: Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone—- We frolic while 'tis May.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 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. II.— ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A CHINA TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 1 'TWAS on a lofty vase's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 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. II.— ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A CHINA TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 1 'TWAS on a lofty vase's... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 páginas
...hear, in accents low, The sportive, kind reply — Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly I Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. GRAY. I. « It is a happy world alter all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delixht ..,1 existence.... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 páginas
...accents low, The sportive, kind reply ; Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joy ad its meal of gold. Let vapid idlers loll in silk... ܀ N 0 ܀ ݀ — DAWES'S "SONG OF SPRING." . 'Tis the season of tender delight, — The season of fresh-springing... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 páginas
...and what art theu ? A solitary fly ! Thy joy no glittering female meets, No hive hast theu of hearded fruitful fi E — Wo frolie while 'tis May. DAWES'S "SONG OF SPEING." 'Tls the season of tender delight, — The... | |
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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... 
