 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 208 页
...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, 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 ? These,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 222 页
...call our own. Lighter than air, Hope's 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 of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1802 - 308 页
...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, 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 ? These,... | |
 | 1814 - 556 页
...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 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 ? These,... | |
 | 1856 - 634 页
...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, 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 页
...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, 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 ? These,... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 页
...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 ! Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! 2. It is often found, that a fine genius has but a feeble memory : for, where the genius is bright,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1815 - 300 页
...beantiful expressions of a poet : " 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, 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 hour ? " These,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1816 - 276 页
...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, 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? These,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 页
...only pleasures we can cajl our own. Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If bjijt 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 Pow'rr Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour ? These,... | |
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If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frostwork melts away! 
