 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...call obey, And place and time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone i The only pleasures we can call our own. Lighter than air, hope's summer visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky j If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 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 Iteason play,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 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. MERCY. 429 MERCY. THE quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon... | |
 | Arts - 1854 - 394 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 tho rich relics of a well-spent hour... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1854 - 494 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...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... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1854 - 588 pages
...tender, and elegant lines which close the Poem : — " 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1854 - 468 pages
...moral, tender, and elegant lines which close the poem : < 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... | |
 | Sacred poetry - 1854 - 268 pages
...But on whose billowy back, from man conceal'd, The glaring sunbeam plays. HK WHITE. TIME WELL SPENT. 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, Lo,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 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...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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 668 pages
...treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey. And space and time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone, The only pleasures we can call our own !" Pleasures of Memory. CHAP. If ever two poets arose in striking contrast to each ' other, Rogers... | |
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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?... 
