 | General reader - 1827 - 246 páginas
...its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever; • Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...amid the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide. Bum*. Religion is so far from barring men any innocent pleasure, or comfort of human life, that it... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 páginas
...snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flits ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. * * Burn's Tarn O'Shanter. Observation and experience abundantly confirm the truth of the paradox,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever;...amid the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide. Sums. CIX. There is only one quarter of an hour in human life passed ill, and that is between the calling... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 páginas
...Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever;...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm — Wae man can tether time or tide. Burns. CIX. There is only one quarter of an hour in human life... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 páginas
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow•r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever...borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; TAM O' SHANTER. . ' . i. i . i . " ' . I1 . . » •V . •M . ..:'... -i I '. . .. r .; .' .. :\... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 332 páginas
...fugitive nature of earthly pleasures. — " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the...place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amidst the storm." To the safe flock, or to the heaving ship The anchor's grasp ; — to the resplendent... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 352 páginas
...fugitive nature of earthly pleasures. — " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the...place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amidst the storm." Ode on Vicissitude. To the safe flock, or to the heaving ship The anchor's grasp... | |
 | 1831 - 426 páginas
...pleasures are like popples spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is (bed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever;...Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether lime or tide; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key -stane,... | |
 | Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 212 páginas
...Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flits ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.*... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 páginas
...the ills o' life victorious. pread, You seize the flow*r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the boreal is race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... 
