 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 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts e, Were perilous to hear. He told of girls — a happy...in gone down. He spake of plants that hourly change I [From ' Human Ufe.1} The lark has sung his carol in the sky, The bees have hummed their noontide... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Keason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts bers ! [Prom ' ffuman Life.'] The lark has sung his carol in the sky, The bees have hummed their noontide... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Rogers, Mark Akenside - English poetry - 1844 - 206 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,...living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms o%rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES TO PLEASURES OF MEMORY. PART II. P. 87,1.15.... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...fleeting eloud 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? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight Four round her path a stream of... | |
 | Sophocles, John Frederick Boyes - Comparative literature - 1844 - 242 pages
...her worst, there are relics of joy, Bright hours of the past, that she cannot destroy. Moore. Say, can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the rich relics of a well spent hour. Rogers' Pleasures of Memory. The same sentiment occurs in Pind. Olymp. ii. 29 ; Esdras... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 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 FIRST PART. PAGE 9, LINE 13. Ye Household deities, $•i•. THESE were imagined to be the departed... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 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. Books. CRAEBE. BLEST be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ' T:'re. when the trembling ••/-,-'' takes her fliglu, Pour round her path a stream of living light, And gild those pure and perfect realms of /-.-•, Where VIRTUK-- triumphs, and her son* are bUit. Varieties. 1. Costume, when once regulated... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...J Thete, when the trembling spirit lakes her flight, Pour round her path a ftream of living lipht, And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest. Where VIRTUE— triumphs, and her sons are llrtt. Varieties. 1. Casfnmf, when once regulated by true fdcncf. and or/, remains in unchaneable good... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 618 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the akj ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work mulls away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour f These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Four round her path a stream of living light;... | |
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