 Even so luxurious Men , unheeding , pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine , A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till , blown away by death , oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.  The Natural History of Insects - Page 230by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - 1835 - 321 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...that POWER, Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, 340 As on our smiling eyes his servant-sun. THICK in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward, and downward, thwarting, and convolv'd, The quivering nations sport ; till, tempest-wing'd, Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
..., and- downward, thwarting, and convolv'tl , The. quivering nations sport ; till, tempest- wwg'd , Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious Men, unheeding, pass An idle summer - life in fortune's shine , A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy , from... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...sun. Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward, and downward, thwarting, and convolv'd, The quivering nations sport; till, tempest-wing'd,...day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...to that pow'r, Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant-sun. Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward, and downward, thwarting, and convolv'd, The quiv'ring nations sport; till, tempest- wing'd, Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...to that Power, Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant sun. Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward, and downward, thwarting, and convolv'd, The quivering nations sport; till, tempest-wing'd, Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...to that Power, Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant sun. Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward, and downward, thwarting, and convolv'd, The quivering nations sport; till, tempest-wing'd, Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...to that POWER , Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds , As on our smiling eyes his servant-sun. Thick in yon stream of light , a thousand -ways ,...day. Even so luxurious Men , unheeding , pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine , A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...to that Power, Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant-sun. Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward, and downward, thwarting, and convolv'd, The quivering nations sport; till tempest-wing'd, Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...that Power Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, • 340 As on our smiling eyes his servant sun. Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward and downward, thwarting and convolv'd, The quivering nations sport; till, tempest-winged, Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...that POWER, Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, 34 As on our smiling eyes his servant-sun. Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward, and downward, thwarting, and convolv'd, The quivering nations sport; till, tempest-wing'd, Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face... | |
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