 their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the fun d . IV, To Contemplation's fober eye ' Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the bufy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In...  A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes - Page 275edited by - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...sstatem liquidam Virgil Georg. lib. 4. c Quick glancing to the sun. \ 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 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,...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,...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1810 - 308 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,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...Sun their waved coats dropp'd with 'Id. MUton's Paradise Lost, Book ii. V. To Contemplation's sober eye* Such is the race of man: And they that creep,...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: Bnish'd... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 266 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 476 pages
...human species with the insect world, emphatically remarks :— To Contemplation's sober eye, Siu-li is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end wheie 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
...: Some lightly o'er the current fkim, Some fhow their gaily-gilded trim Quick glancing to the fun. To contemplation's fober eye Such is the race of man...through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours dreft : Brufh'd by the hand of rough mifchance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They ieave, in... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...the cvreat iknn. Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the MB. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man: And they that creep,...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 drest: Brush''J... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 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 her age, at Clifton, died Hester... | |
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