 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 208 pages
...treasures shine! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call ober, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway i Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone; The only...of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1801 - 222 pages
...treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone; The only...summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; G6 If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1802 - 308 pages
...treasures shine! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone ; The...of sober Reason play, LO, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch- the rich relics of a well-spent hour... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pages
...treasures shine : Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ; Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone, The only...pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer visions die ; If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play,... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...moral, ten* der, and elegant lines which close the Poems. ' Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions fly, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a...of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...shine ! Thought, and her shadowy brood, thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone, The only...of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1806 - 208 pages
...call obey. And Place and Time are subject to thy sway! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alonej The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than...of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art,, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour?... | |
 | John Gustavus Lemaistre - Europe - 1806 - 498 pages
...never be effaced: and if the pleasures of memory are, to use the elegant wordf of Mr. Rogers, " The pleasures most we feel when most alone, ' The only pleasures we can call our own," I shall owe to Vienna a stock of independent happiness which will cheer the hours of solitude, and... | |
 | John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brocd thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone, The only...pleasures we can call our own ! Lighter than air Hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; It but a beam of sober reason play, Lo... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American essays - 1815 - 300 pages
...will borrow the beantiful expressions of a poet : " Lighter than air, hope's summer visions fly, " If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky, " If but...sober reason play, " Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work melts away. " But can the wile of art, the grasp of power, " Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent... | |
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Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour?... 
