 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 222 pages
...shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone; The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; G6 If but a beam of sober Reason play,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 208 pages
...shadowy brood thy call ober, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway i Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone; The only pleasures we can call our own.' 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,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1802 - 308 pages
...shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own. 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,... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pages
...shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ; Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone, The only pleasures we can call our...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 ?... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...moral, ten* der, and elegant lines which close the Poems. ' Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions fly, 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...shadowy brood, thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone, The only pleasures we can call our own. 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,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1806 - 208 pages
...call obey. And Place and Time are subject to thy sway! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alonej The only pleasures we can call our own. 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,... | |
 | John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...shadowy brocd thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone, The only pleasures we can call our...visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; It but a beam of sober reason play, Lo ! Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! 2. It is often found,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American essays - 1815 - 300 pages
...will borrow the beantiful expressions of a poet : " Lighter than air, hope's summer visions fly, " 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 wile of art, the grasp of power, " Snatch the rich relics of a... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...nlone ; The only pleasures we can cajl our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If bjijt 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 Pow'rr Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent... | |
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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 frostwork melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour... 
