 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. 8. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself laws behind, And the swift-wing d arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment... | |
 | Thomas Loraine McKenney - English language - 1827 - 606 pages
...and eat whatever fell in their way, I gave orders that these birds were not to be molested. "Hmnfleel is a glance of the mind.' Compar'd with the speed of its flight, , The tempest itself lags behind, • ' t , , And the swift winged arrows ul1 light." How instantly on hearing the pensive note... | |
 | Thomas Loraine McKenney - Great Lakes (North America) - 1827 - 534 pages
...whatever fell in their way, I gave orders that these birds were not to be molested. " 1 1. .v II,, tua glance of the mind! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift winged arrows of light." How instantly on hearing the pensive note of this bird,... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - Conduct of life - 1827 - 270 pages
...really, these visits, in thought, are very delightful. Alexander Selkirk, you know, papa, says : ' How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, K'en the tempest itself lags behind, And the swift- winged arrows of light.' One of the first excursions... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...tell me I yet have a friend, ;., f Though a friend I am never to see* 6 How fleet is a glance otthe mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When 1 think of my own native land. In a moment I seem... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see? How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...send A wish or a thought after me ? O, tell me I yet have a friend/ Though a triend I am never to see. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. A e(.How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flight, .- The tempest itself lags behind, r- And the swift-winged arrows of light> • • (When I think of my own native land, ' V In... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...wish or a thought after Die ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend 1 am never to see. 6. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compar'd with the speed of its flieht. The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-wing'd arrows of light. When 1 think of my own... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. 6. How fleet! is a glance of the mind? Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind', Ahd the swift-winged arrows of light. . When I think of my own native land, In a moment I... | |
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Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. 
