I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise. Retrospective Review - Página 361editado por - 1824Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 370 páginas
...wisest death make us our errors know. Almost every poet may echo the sentiment of the next sonnet. I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what...and days. I know that all the Muses' heavenly lays, \Vith toil of sprite, which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few, or none are sought ; That... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in heav'n again. WILLIAM DRDMMOND. 1585-1649, NNETS. I KNOW that all beneath the moon decays, And what...is brought, In Time's great periods shall return to naught, That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muse's heavenly lays, With... | |
| 1840 - 372 páginas
...be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in heav'n again. WILLIAM DRUMMOND. 1585-1649. I ENOW that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals...is brought, In Time's great periods shall return to naught, That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muse's heavenly lays, With... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 páginas
...thou wilt bequeath! I long to kiss the image of my death. I KNOW that all beneath the moon decaies, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In Time's...states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muse's heavenly lays, With toil of spright which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few, or none,... | |
| Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1841 - 318 páginas
...beside his own sweet Countess, which Reginald, on his reaching them, immediately vacated. CHAPTER XV. " I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what...brought, In time's great periods shall return to nought." ****** " Thorow earth and waters deepe, The pen by skill doth passe; And fealty nyps the worldes abuse,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...exact and uncommon to be called a resemblance : Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.] SONNETS. I KNOW that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In Tune's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know... | |
| Washington Irving - 1843 - 458 páginas
...Achilles, or the far-famed Portland vase. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. "I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what...brought, In time's great periods shall return to nought. I know that all the muse's heavenly layes, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 páginas
...in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none ure sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise. DRtMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN. HEBE are certain... | |
| Washington Irving - 1843 - 390 páginas
...Achilles, or the far-famed Portland vase. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. A COLLOQUY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, III time's great periods shall return to nought. I know that all the muse's heavenly layes , With toil... | |
| 1858 - 598 páginas
...dreams and broken purposes of the past. Turning so to great empires of a bye-gone day, we find : — ' ' That all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals...nought, That fairest states have fatal nights and days.* And thus we may look to arrive at many rules of conduct for ourselves ; what to do and what to avoid.... | |
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