 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1793 - 386 pages
...busy and the gay, But flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest : Brufli'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age their airy dance, They leave, in dust to rest.' These, (nephew !) with other charming lines of the excellent GRAT, were... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...5.f. 161. ON THE SPRING. 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 Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor Moralist... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...threshold preach, Sec. 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 Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor Moralist!... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...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 Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor Moralist... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro1 life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest! Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low, The sportive kind reply, Poor Moralist!... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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 Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance. They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Alike the busy and the gay But nutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest 1 Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low. The sportive kind reply, Poor Moralist... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...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, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor Moralist... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...busy and >the gay Hut flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colors drest : Kmsri'd l>erk, while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had They leaye, in dust to rest. ; Methinks I hear, in accents low. The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...end where 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 ; Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave in dust to rest Methiuks I hear in accents low The siKtrtive kind reply j " Poor moralist... | |
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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... 
