| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 222 pages
...cloud obscure the sky; G6 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...living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! «7 NOTES. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a.... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 208 pages
...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...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
...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-...living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 20,... | |
| 1814 - 556 pages
...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...living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! * The descriptiVe passages of this classical poem,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...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...living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! THE END. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE 1.... | |
| Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 464 pages
...play, La, fancy's 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...living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumph?, and her sons are blest!" WHILE the late singular events were passing... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - American essays - 1815 - 300 pages
..." 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...living light, " And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, " Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest." To you, my young friends, who are acquiring... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...cloud obscure the sky j 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? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...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? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...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 hour ? These, when- the trembling spirit wings her fligh Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest,... | |
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