 Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost nullity into a state Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could...  Poems - Sivu 194tekijä(t) William Cowper - 1818 - 299 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1839 - 530 sivua
...that from this acorn sprung the huge-spreading oak on which the American eagle has built her nest ! ' Time was when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the roots — and time has been When tempests could not.'* " Nothing now remains of that parent settlement... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1839 - 506 sivua
...that from this acorn sprung the huge-spreading oak on which the American eagle has built her nest ! " Time was when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the roots — and time has been When tempests could not."* Nothing now remains of that parent settlement... | |
 | 1840 - 432 sivua
...prepared The soft receptacle, in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through." — " Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could...root, — and time has been When tempests could not." — His spirits, however, were greatly depressed about this time, by the first paralytic attack, which... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 324 sivua
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...time has been When tempests could not. At thy firmest ago Thou hadst within thy bole solid contents, That might have ribb'd the sides and plank'd the deck... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 358 sivua
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...state Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence, 1 Slow, into such magnificent decay. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1841 - 506 sivua
...that from this acorn sprung the huge-spreading oak on which the American eagle has built her nest ! " Time was when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the roots — and time has been When tempests could not."* Nothing now remains of that parent settlement... | |
 | Parent - 1843 - 222 sivua
...production of symmetry of character — Characteristics of rapid outward tendency — Closing reflections. "Time was, when settling on thy leaf, A fly could shake thee to the roots." COWPER. THE YAHDLEY OAK. THE mind and heart have reciprocity of action, and the state of the... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1847 - 500 sivua
...the bud. It will then be seen that what Cowper said of his oak might be applied to most of them : — Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could...root— and time has been When tempests could not. ALFRED THE GREAT. — When the early period in which he lived, and the disadvantages under which he... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1848 - 432 sivua
...in the bud. It will then ba seen that what Cowper said of his oak might be applied to most of them : Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could...root — and time has been When tempests could not. ALFRED THE GREAT. — When the early period in which he lived, and the disadvantages under which he... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 sivua
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...firmest age Thou hadst within thy bole solid contents, [deck That might have ribb'd the sides and plank'd the Of some flagg'd admiral ; and tortuous arms,... | |
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