 | Edward Hughes - 1851
...current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep and...they that fly Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest ; Brushed... | |
 | Naturalist pseud - 1852
...current skim Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day In fortune's varying colours dress'd : Brush'd... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 519 pages
...current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay, But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest, Brushed... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 186 pages
...e'er the current skim, Some show their gayly gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. ON THE SPRING. 89 And they that creep. and they that fly. Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors dress'd • Brush'd... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1854
...that of Isaiah respecting man, has been beautifully expressed by Gray : To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man ; And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay, But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest ; Brushed... | |
 | Epes Sargent - English poetry - 1854 - 166 pages
...current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors drest: Brushed... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, William Collins - 1854 - 257 pages
...eye d Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through Life's little day, Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd: Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1855 - 254 pages
...skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. 4 To Contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of Man, And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd ; Brush'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias George Smollett - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 254 pages
...skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. 4 To Contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of Man, And they that creep, and...they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd ; Brush'd... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Poetry - 1855 - 570 pages
...the raee of man : And they that ereep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying eolours drest: Brush'd by the hand of rough misehanee ; Or ehill'd by age, their airy danee They leave... | |
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