 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 476 pages
...contrasting the human species with the insect world, emphatically remarks : — To Contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end when; they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...current fkim, Some fhow their gaily-gilded trim Qmck glancing to the fun. To contemplation's fober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep, and...through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drefl : BruftVd by .the hand of rough mifchance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...current skim ; Some ihow 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 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'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 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 drest : Brush'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the snn. 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 pages
...intimacies, cheerful gaiety, and the cultivation of lighter literature — but that life has closed, for they that creep and they that fly Shall end where they began ! A Bath paper says, " On Wednesday last, May 2, in the 82d year of lier api-, at Clifton, died Hester... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick glancing to the Sun 3 . To Contemplation's sober eye 4 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... | |
 | Hunting - 1823 - 448 pages
...frost. PO ET R Y. THE HIGH COURT OF DIANA. Far the Sporting Magazine. THE WRONG SIDE OF THE POST. " And they that creep— and they that fly— " Shall end where they began." ППНАТ life's a race, we all confess, ж And, mid the motley host Who run, 'tig fair that some... | |
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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. 
