 | 1829 - 866 trang
...indeed rallied us upon the occasion ; and I thought Julia never appeared half so beautiful as now. " But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is shed." So saith Robert Burns ; and, truth to speak, his distich was never more effectually verified than at... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1830 - 50 trang
...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 place ; TAM O' SHANTER. . '... | |
 | Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 212 trang
...regrets? The evanescent nature of such gratifications is fully adequate to produce this effect, for Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flits ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 218 trang
...regrets? The evanescent nature of such gratifications is fully adequate to produce this effect, for Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flits ere you can point their place ;... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 332 trang
...somewhat similar accumulation of images to illustrate the fugitive nature of earthly pleasures. — " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 trang
...may be blest, but Tarn was glorious O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. pread, 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 boreal is race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 352 trang
...somewhat similar accumulation of images to illustrate the fugitive nature of earthly pleasures. — " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, 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... | |
 | 1831 - 426 trang
...o' life victorious. But pleasures are like popples spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is (bed; 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 place Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | 1832 - 206 trang
...beds of pleasaut green, Where never yet was creeping creature seen. THOMSON. CASTLK OF IXDOLEXCK. BUT pleasures are like Poppies spread, You seize the flower,...snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Henry Junius Nott - 1834 - 238 trang
...begun to assume a halcyon aspect " But," to make a quotation that we will not mar by retrenchment, " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...snow-falls in the river, - A moment white — then melts for ewr ; VOL. I.— B , Or Jike the borealis race, ; That flit ere you can point their place ; J Or... | |
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O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, 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... 
