 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 208 pągines
...when most alone; The only pleasures we can call our own.' 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1802 - 308 pągines
...when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own. 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... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pągines
...pensive dignity which beautifully corresponds with the scene. ' Long have ye known Reflection's genial ray Gild the calm close of Valour's various day. '...we cannot resist the pleasure of quoting the moral, ten* der, and elegant lines which close the Poems. ' Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions fly, If... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pągines
...when most alone, The only pleasures we can call our own. 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 pągines
...when most alone, The only pleasures we can call our own. 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... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1815 - 300 pągines
...subject, I will borrow the beantiful expressions of a poet : " Lighter than air, hope's 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 wile of art, the grasp... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 276 pągines
...when most alone; The only pleasures we can call our own. 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... | |
 | 1820 - 438 pągines
...! EUBULUS. Thoughts on a Well-Spent Life. BY S. ROGERS. ESQ. Lighter than air Hope's 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 wiles of Art, the grasp of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 340 pągines
...when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own. 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... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pągines
...alone, The only pleasures we can call our own! , • • 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 ! i But can the wiles of art, the grasp... | |
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If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away... 
