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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... "
Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces - Page 271
edited by - 1821 - 807 pages
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The Lady's Magazine: Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ...

Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...might well moralise on his bachelorship, and call himself ' a solidary fly.' Thy loy, no glitt'ring female meets ; No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ! *" Collins was never a lover, and never married. His odes, with all their exquisite fancy and splendid...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 18

History - 1778 - 626 pages
...hear, in accents low. The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist I and what art thou Î A solitary fly I Thy joys no glittering female meets. No hive hast...display: On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is sel, thy spring is gone—- We frdlick, while, 'tis May.' This observation must we presume make one...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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 :...! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display : On hasty...
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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! and what art thou? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display: On hasty...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...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 :...! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display : On hasty...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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! and what art thou ? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, • Nare per sestatem liquidam. Virg....
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. ODE II. Olt THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, J- WAS on a lofty...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...hear, in accents low. The sportive kind reply, Poor Moralist I and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy...sun is set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May. ODE. On the Death of afamrite Cat, drowned in a Tut of Gold Fishes. TWAS on a lofty vase's...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leaye, in dust to rest. ; Methinks cious groves, The scene of hia past triumphs and hi*...Sadly surveying where he- ranjj'd alone •Prince glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sheets, No painted plumage to display ; On nasty...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...the hand of rough mischance, Or cbill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rent Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply :...! and what art thou ' A solitary fly ! Thy joys no gHtt'rinj femnle meets, \n hive bust I In. u of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; Ou...
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