 To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay...  Recollections - Page 81by Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1793 - 386 pages
...Pact,— d dialogue, concerning Youth. To D***d M*****u E*****e. — ' The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current fkirn, Some fliew their gaily gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. ' To contemplation's sober eye,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : (b) Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...repose: Yet hark, how'thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: (b) Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : b Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the...liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wjjig, Hager to taste the honey'd m Combat to all, and Ixire away the (lame ; And taught the woods to eelm 10 the si ream 1 li gaily gilded trim Quick-glaucing to the sun. , To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honey'd spring, And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim. Some shew their gaily gilded trim, Quick -glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye. Such is the... | |
 | James Ogilvie - Philosophy - 1816 - 436 pages
...and misapplied proverb, " that many littles, make a mickle," " The insect youth are on the wing, " Eager to taste the honied spring, " And float amid the liquid noon:" " Hark! how through the peopled air Their busy murmur glows!" " Mist, the IHISJ- and the gay, But flutter... | |
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