 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 trang
...And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim ; Some ihow their gaily-gilded trim Quick glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's...they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours dress' d ; Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 trang
...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the...they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 trang
...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the Sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the...they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance;... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 trang
...noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the snn. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man...they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush 'd by the hand of rough Mischance,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 trang
...skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick glancing to the Sun 3 . To Contemplation's sober eye 4 Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and...they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd: Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 trang
...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gayly gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the...they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd : Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance,... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 858 trang
...skim, Some slow, their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Snch is the race of man : And they that creep and they...they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day In fortune's varying colours drest . Brushed by the hand of rough mischance... | |
 | John Cole - 1827 - 166 trang
...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick-glancirg to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the...they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, N In fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 trang
...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the...they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd : Brushed by the hand of rough Mischance,... | |
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To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by the hand of rough... 
