 | James Anderson - 1793 - 386 страници
...busy and the gay, But flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest : Brufli'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age their airy dance, They leave, in dust to rest.' These, (nephew !) with other charming lines of the excellent GRAT, were... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 страници
...5.f. 161. ON THE SPRING. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor Moralist... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 страници
...threshold preach, Sec. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro' Life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest: Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor Moralist!... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 страници
...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 the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor Moralist... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 страници
...end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro1 life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest! Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low, The sportive kind reply, Poor Moralist!... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 страници
...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 the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance. They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 страници
...Alike the busy and the gay But nutter thro' life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest 1 Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low. The sportive kind reply, Poor Moralist... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 страници
...Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush' d by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor Moralist... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 страници
...busy and >the gay Hut flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colors drest : Kmsri'd l>erk, while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had They leaye, in dust to rest. ; Methinks I hear, in accents low. The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 страници
...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 by the hand of rough Mischance ; Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance They leave in dust to rest Methiuks I hear in accents low The siKtrtive kind reply j " Poor moralist... | |
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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. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter thro... 
