 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 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 - 472 pages
...to 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,...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... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 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,...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 - 1854 - 278 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 - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...current 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,...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 - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...current 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,...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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober : We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain, Beneath...sun of May, And frightened from our sprouting grain busy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colors dressed ; Bruised... | |
 | Baptists - 1856 - 790 pages
...swarm of insects sporting in the summer's sunbeam for a day and then gone. 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, Rut flutter through life's little day. In fortune's varying colours drest; Rrushed... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To contemplation's soher eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep and they that fly Shall end where they hegan. Alike the husy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.— -Johnson. DCCXCV. 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... | |
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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. 
