 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 222 pàgines
...summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; G6 If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the...perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! «7 NOTES. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 20, 1. 7. Awake lut one, and lo,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 208 pàgines
...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...trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path 3 stream of living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1802 - 308 pàgines
...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...perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE a. Page 20, 1. 7. Awake tut one, and lo, what myriads... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pàgines
...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...perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest.' These are the lines which Mackintosh, thereby giving the measure of his own poetic... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pàgines
...summer-visions fly, 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...; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! * The descriptiVe passages of this classical poem, require... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 pàgines
...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...perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! THE END. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE 1. So when the daring sons of science, &c He... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 464 pàgines
...summer visions die^ If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sty ; 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, Siyitch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1815 - 300 pàgines
..." If but a beam of sober reason play, " Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work melts away. " But can the wile of art, the grasp of power, " Snatch the rich relics...perfect realms of rest, " Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest." To you, my young friends, who are acquiring an education, I cannot express the peculiar... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 276 pàgines
...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...Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well- spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 260 pàgines
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky j 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, Pour round her path a stream of... | |
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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?... 
