Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! SAMUEL ROGERS. Poems - Page 44by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
| Catherine Sinclair - Christian life - 1860 - 434 pages
...the stone." 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...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... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...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 ! Fancy's fairy...Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour 1 These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light ;... | |
| Jacob Cats, Robert Farlie - Emblems - 1860 - 270 pages
...them. — LEL 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.— ROGERS. SIR KENELM DIGBY, in his Private Memoirs, makes a lover say, "I will go to the other world... | |
| Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...collect and shape themselves, Upstarting in their own completed image, To scare or to reward. COLERIDGE. But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch...hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her night, Pour round her path a stream of living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest,... | |
| LUDWIG HERRIG - 1861 - 956 pages
...Fancy's fairy frost work melts awayl But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rieh relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling...flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light; Archir fn Sprachen. XXIX. -25 Von diesen Versen pflegte Mackintosh zu sagen, sie glichen dem Schlüsse... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1861 - 996 pages
...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 hoar? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
| LUDQIG HERRIG - 1861 - 478 pages
...cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost work melts awayl But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rieh relics of a well-spent honr? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Is only ours. Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time. Joksan. LIFE-Well Spent. Can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the...well-spent hour * These, when the trembling spirit winjs hi? flight, Pour round his path a stream of living light. And gild thoso pure and perfect realms... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1864 - 154 pages
...Hope's summer- visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Eeason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But...wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relicts of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...summer- visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, 65 Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can...flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light; 70 And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest !... | |
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