 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 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 Bnt flutter thro' life's little day, • ; •• In fortune's varying colours dreit... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. 30 To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. " Every language," says the same annotate, " is enriched and improved by the introduction of words... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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 colours dress'd : Brush'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 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 flatter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours dress'd : Brush'd... | |
 | English letters - 1826 - 438 pages
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 | William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...skim, Some slow, their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Snch 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... | |
 | English literature - 1787 - 564 pages
...rtanza however is claiucal. '• To Contemplation's fober eye Such is the race of man : And they ih.it creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the buf^and the gay • Bur flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours dreft : Brufh'd... | |
 | John Cole - 1827 - 166 pages
...current skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick-glancirg 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, N In fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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 aud the gay But flutter through 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. 
