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?... Poems - Page 45by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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...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
...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-...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! 67 NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 20, 1. 7. Awake tut one, and lo, what myriads rise; WHEN... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1810 - 202 pages
...cloud obscure the sky; 64 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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! 65 67 NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 14, line 1. Up springs at every step to claim a tear... | |
| 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...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... | |
| John Evans - American poetry - 1814 - 298 pages
...reason play, Lo! Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Pow'r, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These,...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! THE GLOW-WORM. Rogers. THIS little transparent insect, that decorates our private paths aud public... | |
| 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..." Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest.'' if tk*y *** " '**" » they Of what *K«ragir wi« ft he that acq«re iwweg ty, if 1 to n*ai» it ?... | |
| 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,... | |
| Anecdotes - 1820 - 438 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...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! OR, POST-CHAISE COMPANION. 415 ' A Loyal Effusion, on the Courier attributing the fate abundant harvest,... | |
| Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 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...These when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Four round her path a stream of living light : And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where... | |
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