 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 254 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 - 254 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 - 554 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
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | Bible - 1857 - 188 pages
...— a comparison too affecting not to have been countless times repeated. " 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 Shall flutter through life's little day In fortune's varying colours dressed : Brushed... | |
 | Job (the patriarch) - 1857
...— a comparison too affecting not to have been countless times repeated. " 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 Shall flutter through life-s little day In fortune-s varying colours dressed : Brushed... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1858 - 120 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, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush 'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 382 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 Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay j -flutter thro' life's little day, nb ortune's... | |
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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. 
