 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...sun their wav'd coats dropt with gold. Milton's Paradise Lost, book 7. To Contemplation's sober eye d 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 thro' Life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...skim, Some shew their gaily gilded trim. Quick-glancing to the sunt. T6 Contemplation's sober eyej, 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 thro1 life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest! Brush'd by... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...current skim, Some shew 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 thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...current skim, Some shew 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 : Brush'... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...skim. Some shew 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 nutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest 1 Brush'd by... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...current skim. Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Qnick-glauciug to the vai. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep , and they that flr, Shall end » here they began. Alike tli6 busy and the gay But flutter thro' life's little day,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...coats dropp'd with gold. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book ii. VOL. XJV. To Contemplation's sober eye» Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they bogan. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day. In Fortune's varying colours... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...How little are the Great" was the closing line of a stanza in that ode,3 in which it is said, that " they that creep and they that fly, shall end where they began :" and so he suffered it for some time to stand, in application, no doubt, of his own idea of a closing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...coats dropp'd with gold. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book ii. VOL. ХПГ. To Contemplation's sober eye 4 Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they Ihat fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through life's little... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 468 pages
...the human species with the insect world, emphatically remarks :— x 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 Bat flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest ; Brush' d... | |
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To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. 
