Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour?... The Pleasures of Memory - Page 56by Samuel Rogers - 1864 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 222 pages
...fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! «7 NOTES. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 20, 1. 7. Awake lut one, and lo, what myriads rise!... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 208 pages
...Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path 3 stream of living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1802 - 308 pages
...fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch- the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 20, 1. 7. Awake tut one, and lo, what myriads rise; WHEN a... | |
| 1856 - 634 pages
...fairy frost work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest.' These are the lines which Mackintosh, thereby giving the measure of his own poetic feeling, used to... | |
| 1814 - 556 pages
...fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit...; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! * The descriptiVe passages of this classical poem, require... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit...Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! THE END. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE 1. So when the daring sons of science, &c He wept ; but the effort... | |
| Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 464 pages
...fairy frost-work melts away. But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Siyitch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit...those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumph?, and her sons are blest!" WHILE the late singular events were passing at the castles of Valleroy... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - American essays - 1815 - 300 pages
...fairy frost-work melts away. " But can the wile of art, the grasp of power, " Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? " These, when the trembling..." Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest." To you, my young friends, who are acquiring an education, I cannot express the peculiar worth and importance... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...Pow'rr Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when- the trembling spirit wings her fligh Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And...realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are btesU ***** * O'er the still lake the bell of ev'ning toll'd. And on the moor the shepherd penn'd his... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well- spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light j And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest I .... | |
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