 | English poetry - 1859 - 116 pages
...dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. GRAY. i me here, ;hought, he year ; rine, ot. WORDSWORTH. THE HAMLET. WRITTEN IN WHICHWOOD FOREST.... | |
 | English poetry - 1859 - 128 pages
...dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — \Ve frolic while 'tis Mav. GRAY, -'I- I ii * 1 '»",' . '« •- v* -* +' '+ +- ' '» »' SONNET.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 520 pages
...imbecility itself. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth." Poor moralist, and what art thou 1 A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets. Assuredly it would not have been a question whether these literary characters should have married,... | |
 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - English literature - 1860 - 468 pages
...in dust to rest. 5 Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor Moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DEOWHED IN A CHINA TUB OF QOLE FISHES. 1 'TWAS on a lofty vase's... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1860 - 422 pages
...rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou7 A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets,...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May. II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 'T WAS on a lofty vase's... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low, The sportive kind reply ; Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...set, thy spring is gone, We frolic while 'tis May. Gray. LESSON 7. ON THE SOUND IN THE TERMINATIONS, tlOH, SIOH, tlOUS, &C. NOTHING can be more offensive... | |
 | American poetry - 1861 - 174 pages
...rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply ; " Poor Moralist ! and what art thou t A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets,...thy Spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May." GRAY. THE SQUIRREL-HUNT. HEN, as a nimble Squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filbert-food,... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist ! and what art thou? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets,...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD PISHES. 'Twas on a lofty vase's side, Where... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist! and what art thou ? No painted plumage to display: On hasty wings thy...set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May. T. Gray CXLIII THE POPLAR FIELD The poplars are fell'd, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1863 - 304 pages
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. On the Death of a Favourite Cat. 159 ODE II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, Drowned in. a Tub of... | |
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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... 
