 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 sivua
...a' the ills of life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow 'r— its bloom is shed; Or like the snow, falls in the river,...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour approaches, Tam maun ride; That hour o' night's black... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 sivua
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 484 sivua
...form. Evanishing amid the storm ; Or like the Borealis race, That shift ere yon can point their place ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever." But power is eternal ; it is " enthroned in the hearts of Kings." If you want the proofs, look at history,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 488 sivua
...bursts in the same instant : — " Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere yon can mark their place : Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then gone for ever." His mind has infinite activity, which only leads him into numberless chimeras ; and... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 532 sivua
...which, as a genuine poet beautifully observes of pleasures, has had the fate Or snow that falls upon the river, A moment white — then melts for ever;...rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.* The same fickleness which the French have displayed in a manner so striking, with respect to their... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 522 sivua
...pleasures, has had the fate Or snow that falls upon the river, A moment white — then melts for everOr like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.* The same fickleness which the French have displayed in a, manner so striking, with respect to their... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 sivua
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever;...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide — The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 sivua
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, .A, moment white, then melts for ever...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing'amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 sivua
...You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed! Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit...rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." Page 18. " The fam'd Sir Walter sings." Upon the poetical productions of the " Author of Waverley"... | |
 | 1832 - 358 sivua
...Pleasures are like the poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls on the river, A moment white, then melts for ever; Or, like the Borealis race, That flits ere you can point the place ; Or, like the Rainbow's lovely form, Vanishing amid the storm."... | |
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O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their... 
