I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise. Retrospective Review - Page 361edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
| James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...Death hath thy temple razed, love's empire foiled, The world of honour, worth, and sweetness spoiled. I know that all beneath the moon decays; And what...the Muses' heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which arc so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought ; That there is nothing lighter than... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...face divine, Like one with arrow shot, in laughter's place, Maugre my heart, I joy in my disgrace. at o f s ; The fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muse's heavenly lays With toil... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...face divine, Like one with arrow shot, in laughter's place, Maugre my heart, I joy in my disgrace. naught ; The fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muse's heavenly lays With... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...scorn whom that love doth Do they call virtue there ungratefulness ? SIE Pmur Зш.чит. SONNET. I KNOW that all beneath the moon decays ; And what...are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none am sought; That there is nothing lighter than vain praise. I know frail beauty 's like the purple flower... | |
| John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...(quires clos'd which dead, dead sighs but breath) Joy on this living book to read my death. SONNET. I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what...fairest states have fatal nights and days ; I know how all the Muse's heavenly lays, With toil of spright which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...thought, and uniform terseness ol expression. The reader may judge for himself from a lew examples : " I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what...fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know how all the Muse's heavenly lays, With toil of spright which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds,... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1878 - 498 pages
...become the seat of majesty, And make, no doubt, us happy b\ his leign. SHAKSPEARE. LATIN VERSE. I kno\v that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is wrought In time's great periods shall return to nought, That fairest states have fatal nights and days,... | |
| John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...(quires clos'd which dead, dead sighs but breath) I oy on this living book to read my death. SONNET. I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals m this world is brought, In Time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) - 1880 - 444 pages
...Achilles, or the far-famed Portland vase. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In tune's great period shall return to nought. I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...unter einer Glasglocke aufbewahrt. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY '. I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, la time's great periods shall return to nought. I know that all the muse's heavenly layes, With toil... | |
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