 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 9by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...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,...rest, Where VIRTUE triumphs, and her sons are blest! ROGERS. And thus, MY YOUNG READER, forget not to engrave upon the tablet of thine heart, these words... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 436 pages
...sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp oif Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour...Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. P. 10, 1. 3. How oft, when purple evening tinged the west, VIRGIL, in one of his... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...lleeting 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,...well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings his flight. Pour round his path a stream of living light, And gild those pure апД perfect realms... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason plaj, Lo, fancy's fairy front- work melts away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power,...rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! " The descriptive passages of this classical poem require, indeed, a closer inspection, and a more... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...Heeling cloud obscure the sky ; If but n beam of sober reason play, Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work mells away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the ridi relics of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, La, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power,...Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES. Note 1, page 2, col. 2. Up iprinft, at every itep, to claim a tear. I came to the place of my birth... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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,...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest. THE SAILOR. THE Sailor sighs as sinks his native shore, As all its lessening turrets bluely fade ;... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...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,...flight. Pour round her path a stream of living light ; i And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest !... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the rich relies of a well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her...realms of rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons arc blest! ITAL Y. PART I. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. DAY glimmer'd in the east, and the white moon Hung like... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky ¡ If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work melts nibble ! Now thou's rurn'd out, for a* thy trouble, But house or bald, To thole well spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Pour round her path a stream of... | |
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