 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...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 27de British poets - 1822Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pages
...hand of rough Mischance; Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave in dust to rest. Mi-thinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; "...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 pages
...'d by the hand of rough Mischance, Or ohill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind...! and what art thou? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'riug female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets No painted plumage to display : On hasty... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...the subsequent passage, a poet of exquisite talents introduces an address from " the insect youth." Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply...: :•?!*."' • Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? •<• ' , . ., ••»* . l*Tt..Is A solitary fly. • , ..•. • • Thy joys no glittering... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 pages
...and it might be imbecility itself. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth,1" and Gray's, " Poor moralist, and what art thou ? A solitary fly...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... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...timeless, 1 should droop, and die* In lilence — but upbraid thee not. E. 21 ON MAGAZINE WRITERS. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply, Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? I can scarcely conceive a nobler and more inspiring sight thun that of the man of genius in the solitude... | |
 | 1823 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 622 pages
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 598 pages
...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 - 608 pages
...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 pages
...Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dost to rest. Methinks I 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 thou of hoarded... | |
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