 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...glories 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 fly, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...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....summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If bnt a beam of soher Reason play, I " Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! Hot can the wiles of Art,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...when most alone, The only pleasures we can call our own. 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 frostwork melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well spent hour?... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And PI. ice and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone; The only...If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a br.ini of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away '. Bat can the wiles of Art, the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...treasures shine! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to ihy 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 An, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relic» of a well-spent hour... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, Arid 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 tho sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, La, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the... | |
 | Hannah Maria Jones - English fiction - 1831 - 912 pages
...the future in her mind. CHAPTER V. Lighter than air Hope's brilliant visions flj ; If but a summer cloud obscure the sky, If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo ! Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away.— ROGERS. NOT less gloomy were the forebodings of Lennox, as he quitted the home of his... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...treasures shine ; Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy eway ; Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone, The only pleasures we can call DUR OWN ! Lighter than air, Hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; Jf... | |
 | Hannah Maria Jones - English fiction - 1831 - 912 pages
...the future in her mind. CHAPTER V. Lighter than air Hope's brilliant visions ft y; If but a summer cloud obscure the sky, If but a beam of sober reason play, Ix>! Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away.—Roccms. NOT less gloomy were the forebodings of Lennox,... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pages
...excess," exercised more its "luxuriant fancy," than on that of the separation of soul and body. : , i" If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away." How much more readily, then, must human inventions fade before the truth of the Holy Scriptures... | |
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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?... 
