 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1866 - 360 páginas
...reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, v No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. so Gray, in a letter to H. Walpole, says : (see Walpole's Works, rol. vp 395.) " I send you a bit of... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 páginas
...reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, 45 No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May. 50 GHAY. ODE ON A DISTANT PBOSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. YE distant spires, ye antique towers,... | |
 | 1867 - 556 páginas
...Poor moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly 1 Thy joys no glittering female meet«, No hive host thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; On hasty wings thy youth is flown, Thy §un is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. ODE II. ON ТПЕ ЛЕАТП OP Л FAVOURITE... | |
 | 1867 - 530 páginas
...burst in three ; And the glass of water they've left for me Shall 'tchick!' to tell them I'm drinking.' ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes. THOMAS GRAY, Author of the Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's... | |
 | Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel - 1995 - 604 páginas
...Celebration, SATB, kbd/brass qnt, 1983 Other vocal: To Many a Well, Mez/S, pf, 1977; Sclima, or Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes, S, cl, pf, 1979; From the Testament of Francois Villon, B-Bar, bn, str qt, 1982 Principal... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - 1998 - 238 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...is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolick, while 'tis May. (4i-50) These are indeed thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn. The... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 páginas
..."A solitary fly!" who violates the "race" of nature, by beginning where he should end, with death: On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. The chain of substitutions here seems to lead to the desired effect of a structured truth-progression... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 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...youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone Although we may at first be tempted to dismiss the Horatian theme encapsulated here as yet another... | |
 | Christian Kay, Jeremy J. Smith - 2004 - 286 páginas
...wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold. Thomas Gray, Ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of goldfishes (1747,) 1. Introduction Historians do not have 'the past as a whole' available; they work... | |
 | Charles Elliott - 2004 - 278 páginas
...PARTICULARLY CATS (1967) What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? THOMAS GRAY "ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLDFISHES" [1748] POEMS (1778) A cat knows how to anticipate. ROGER CARAS A CAT is WATCHING (1989)... | |
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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... 
