 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 46by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...sober Reason play, La, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Ar!, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour!...trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a «ream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest. Where Virtue triumphs, and... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of An, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relic» of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her раЛ а stream of living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of reel, Where Virtue triumphs,... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...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...rest, Where VIRTUE triumphs, and her sons are blest! BOGEHS. And thus, MY YOUNG READER, forget not to engrave upon the tablet of thine heart, these words... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...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...rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! Rogers. THE NEEDLESS ALARM. THERE is a field, through which I often pass, Thick overspread with moss... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1834 - 330 pages
...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...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 Eclogues, describes a... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...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!...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 - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 320 pages
...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?...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! 45 NOTES THE FIRST PART. P. 10, 1. 3. Hotv oft, when purple evening tinged the west, VIKGIL, in one... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...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 his flight. Pour round his path a stream of living light, And gild those pure апД perfect realms... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...sober reason plaj, Lo, fancy's fairy front- work melts away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour...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
...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...living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms uf rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! " The descriptive passages of this classical... | |
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