 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 - 1845 - 340 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 ! THE FIRST PART. PAGE 9, LINE 13. Ye Household deities, $•i•. THESE were imagined to be the departed... | |
 | 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
...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; And gild...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest!" The descriptive passages require indeed a closer inspection, and a more exercised eye, than those of... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1861 - 494 pages
...Fancy's fairy frost work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rieh relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, l'uur round her path a stream of living light; Archiv fn 8piachen. XXIX. 25 Von diesen Versen pflegte... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - Life - 1847 - 400 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. CHAP. V. THIS WORLD IS, AND OUGHT TO BE, AN UNSATISFTING PORTION. Think we, or think we not,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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...realms of rest Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blessed. Boon*. Samuel Rogers was born in London, in 17C2. lie is a man of liberal for • tune, and... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1861 - 488 pages
...Fancy's fairy frost work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rieh relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling...flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light; Archiv fn Sprachen. XXIX. 25 Von diesen Versen pflegte Mackintosh zu sagen, sie glichen dem Schlüsse... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, natch the rich relics of a well spent j And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! ITALY... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 354 pages
...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...Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES TO PLEASURES OF MEMORY. PART II. P. 98, 1. 1. These still eiitt, &c THERE is a future Existence even... | |
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