 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
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 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...declension thence Slow into such magnificent decay. 90 Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root— and time has been When... | |
 | 1840 - 434 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... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1839 - 338 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... | |
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