 | 1865 - 144 trang
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring, And float amid the 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 race of man... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 446 trang
...throngh the peopled air The busy murmur glows; The insect yonth are on the wing, Eager to taste tiie honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show thcir gaily gilded trim Quick glaring to the sun." And lo ! where the forest glade terminates in a... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 trang
...of care, The panting herds repose ; Yet hark ! how, thro' the peopled air, The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon. " I ought not to omit the moral reflection — " How vain the ardor of the crowd ! How low, how indigent... | |
 | 1908 - 376 trang
...hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 trang
...repose; Yet hark how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, 25 Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the...their gaily-gilded trim Quick -glancing to the sun. 30 To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall... | |
 | 1908 - 464 trang
...panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! 25 The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim 30 Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 trang
...repose; Yet hark how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, 25 Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. 30 To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man; And they that creep,... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - 1908 - 552 trang
...propitious, an inglorious life ", etc. In_Gray's ' Ode on the Spring ' (written 1742) the lines, " The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon ", are referred, in the author's own note to Geor. iv. 59, " nare per aestatem liquidam." The motto... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - 1908 - 604 trang
...propitious, an inglorious life ", etc. In Gray's ' Ode on the Spring ' (written 1742) the lines, " The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring. And float amid the liquid noon ", are referred, in the author's own note to Geor. iv. 59, " nare per aestatem liquidam." In Akenside's... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 trang
...of Care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows : The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall... | |
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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... 
