 | British poets - 1809
...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 nutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest 1 Brush'd by... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809
...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'... | |
 | 1809
...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 - 638 pages
...waved 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810
...waved coats dropp'd with gold. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book ii. VOL XIV. To Contemplation's sober eye 4 Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they lifgan. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through lifr's little day. In Fortune's varying colours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810
...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... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 148 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
...contrasting 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,...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 260 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,...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 - 527 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... | |
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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. 
