 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...whose seeming truth Is moralized 1n age and youth : Where all the comforts he can share As wand'ring as his fancies are ; Till in a mist of dark decay...about ; • And shadows out, in lines of night, The subtle stages of time's flight, Till all-obscuring earth hath laid The body in perpetual shade. It... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...whose seeming truth Is moraliz'd in age and youth ; AVhere all the comforts he can share As wandering as his fancies are ; Till in a mist of dark decay...moves about ; And shadows out in lines of night The subtle stages of time's flight ; Till all-obscuring earth hath laid The body in perpetual shade. It... | |
 | 1801 - 454 pages
...shrinks into that fatal mould, Where its first being was enrolled. It is a dial, which points out Tlie sun-set, as it moves about ; And shadows out, in lines of night. The subtle stages of time's flight, Till all-obscuring earth hath laid The body in perpetual shade. It... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...and youth ; Where all the comforts he can share, As wand'ring as his fancies are ; Till in a inist of dark decay The dreamer vanish quite away. It is...of night The subtile stages of Time's flight, Till all obscuring earth hath laid The body in eternal shade. It is a weary interlude, Which doth short... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...whose seeming truth Is moraliz'd in age and youth ; Where all the comforts he can share As wand'ring as his fancies are ; Till in a mist of dark decay The dreamer vanish quite away. COMMON-PLACE BOOK. And shadows out in lines of night The subtle stages of time's flight ; Till all-obscuring... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1826 - 590 pages
...whose seeming truth Is moralie'd in age and youth ; Where all the comforts be can share As wand'ring as his fancies are, Till in a mist of dark decay The d reamar vanish quite awsry. It is a dial — which points out The sun-set as it moves about ; And... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...whose seeming truth Is moralized in age and youth ; Where all the comforts he can share As wandering as his fancies are ; Till in a mist of dark decay...moves about; And shadows out in lines of night The subtle stages of time's flight ; Till all obscuring earth hath laid The body in perpetual shade. It... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...dream—whose seeming truth Is moraliz'd in age and youth; Where all the comforts he can share As wandering as his fancies are; Till in a mist of dark decay The dreamer vanish quite away. It is a dial—which points out The Mm-sct, as it moves about; And shadows out in lines of night The subtle... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...whose seeming truth Is moralized in age and youth ; Where all the comforts he can share As wand'ring as his fancies are, Till in a mist of dark decay The...moves about ; And shadows out in lines of night The subtle stages of Time's flight, Till all-obscuring earth hath laid His body in perpetual shade. It... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...whose seeming truth Is moralised in age and youth ; Where all the comforts he can share As wand'ring as his fancies are, Till in a mist of dark decay The...dreamer vanish quite away. It is a dial — which points ont The sunset as it moves about ; And shadows out in lines of night The subtle stages of Time's flight,... | |
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Whose spring and fall faint seasons keep, Like fits of waking before sleep; Then shrinks into that fatal mould Where its first being was enroll'd. 
