 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
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1858 - 470 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." These are the lines which Mackintosh, thereby giving the measure of his own poetic feeling, used to... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1859 - 476 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." These are the lines which Mackintosh, thereby giving the measure of his own poetic feeling, used to... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1858 - 156 pages
...fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relicts of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. BY THOMAS CAMPBELL. THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. PART I. ANALYSIS. THE Poem opens... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1858 - 616 pages
...awny ! But can the wiles of Art. the grasp of Power, Sm'cli the rich n lies of a welt-spent hour f These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight,...gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where V'inue triumphs, and her sons are blest!" The descriptive passages require indeed a closer inspection,... | |
 | Calcutta univ - 1859 - 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...Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES. Page 12, line 3. For this young FOSCAM, fyc. He was suspected of murder, and at Venice suspicion was... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 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.48 5. — AMRITION. — Byron. He who ascends to mountain-tops27 shall find The loftiest peaks... | |
 | Francis Fulford - Christianity and culture - 1859 - 126 pages
...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...rest, Where virtue triumphs and her sons are blest." It was early in the month of January, 1849, that I went to Scotland to spend three weeks at Abbotsford... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 pages
...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...rest, Where virtue triumphs and her sons are blest." It was early in the month of January, 1849, that I went to Scotland to spend three weeks at Abbotsford... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...sober reason play, Lo ! fancy's tairy 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.. Ex. CXLIL— THE BULL-FIGHT. LOCKHART. KING Almanzor of Granada, he hath bid the trumpet... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour 1 These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight,...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! ' " The descriptive passages require, indeed, a closer inspection, and a more exercised eye, than... | |
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