 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
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...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, fancy's fairy...away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, natch the rich relics of a well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Pour... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...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 ! Fancy's fairy...; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, When Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! " " VOYAGE OP COLUMBUS," &C. 49 The " Epistle to a Friend,"... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - English literature - 1851 - 854 pages
...summer-visions fly, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, 1м, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles...perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her eons are blest 1" The descriptive passages require, indeed, a closer inspection, and a more exercised... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...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, Fancy's fairy...well-spent hour! These, when the trembling spirit wings her fligbt, Pour round her path a stream of living li;bt ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of net,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...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, Fancy's fairy...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Faney'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 - 1851 - 354 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 frost-work melts awav ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ?... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1852 - 430 pages
...summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo 1 Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ; But can the...of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realm* of rent, Where virtue triumphs, and her sun* are blest 1 " Pleaturet of Memory. Seneca says... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...argentum, which signifies silver. The term is applied to the stars, which appear like silver. • If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy...Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? 3. These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...our own. Lighter than air, hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky j If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, fancy's fairy...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... | |
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