 LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight...  The Second Reader, Or Juvenile Companion - Страница 30по John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 260 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 страници
...Prolong my winter all the year, And thy example others make lu lore with sorrow for thy sake. Sic Vita. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are j Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew ; Or like a wind that chafes... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 страници
...translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies. JOUN MILTON, 1608-1674. LIFE. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights...bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out ; the bubble dies ; The... | |
 | 1854 - 268 страници
...from her native east, To journey through the airy gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud. MILTON. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...bubbles which on water stood ; Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies, The spring... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 страници
...gloomy valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. THE LIFE OF MAN. Like to the fulling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like...chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : K'en such is man, whose borrow *d light I? straight call'd in and paid to-night: The wind blows out,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 страници
...thus moralises on the life of man, in a set of similes, as apposite as they are light and elegant : " Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of...like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of mornin» dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : E'en such is... | |
 | 1854 - 622 страници
...and with fire." Amen and Amen. JOSEPH BUKGESS. POETRY. ON LIFE. LIKE to the falling of a star, Or ae the flights of eagles are ; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops uf morning dew ; Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood— Even such... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 страници
...all heaven's harmonies. JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674. LIFE. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the nights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue,...bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night, The wind blows out ; the bubble dies ; The... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 страници
...hand ; whieh, as it gains Extent, and aetive length, the more it pains. Sir W. Davennnfs Just Italian Like to the falling of a star ; Or as the flights...silver drops of morning dew ; Or like a wind that ehafes the flood, Or bubbles whieh on water stood ; Ev'n sueh is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 страници
...all heaven's harmonies. JOHN MILTON, 160S-1674. LIFE. Like to the falling of a star. Or as the nights of eagles are. Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue....morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or hubbies which on water stood — Even such is man. whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in. and... | |
 | 1855 - 458 страници
...keen, shoots into azure far, And, always dwelling nigh, is the remotest star. LIFE. — Henry King. LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or V.ke the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood,... | |
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