| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...kind reply : Poor moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets. No painted plumage...thy spring is gone, — We frolic while 'tis May. THE PLEASURE ARISING t'liOM VICISSITUDE. SMILES on past Misfortune's brow Soft Reflection's hand can... | |
| Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...kind reply; ' Poor Moralist! and what art thou ? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...set, thy Spring is gone— We frolic while 'tis May." LXIV. A SUMMER EVENING. And there follow'd some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come... | |
| David Irving - English language - 1836 - 432 pages
...kind reply : Poor moralist! and what art thou ? A solitary fly. Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— Having thus treated of the nature of personification, and of its different degrees, it remains to shew... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...reply ; " Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...nymphs singing his own sweet verses in " floral games." Nymph 1. Thus, thus begin, the yearly rites Are due to Pan on these bright nights , His morn now rim-Hi,... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 pages
...reply ; " Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets. No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy yonth is flown Thy sun is set, thy spring is goneWc frolic while 'tis May." » Gay. Then, too, a bard... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 pages
...moralise on his bachelorship, and call himself " a solitary fly,"— Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ! Collins was never a lover, and never married. His odes, with all their exquisite fancy and splendid... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side, Where... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...art thon ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweett, No painted plumage to display: On hasty wings thy...thy spring is gone— We frolic, while 'tis May.' II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT. Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fithet. TWAS'on a lofty vase's side,... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to duplay : On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— We frolic, while 'tis May.' H. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT. DrotuneA in a Tuh of Gold Fiihsi. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side,... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Love poetry - 1844 - 384 pages
...moralize on his bachelorship, and call himself " a solitary fly,"— The joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ! Collins was never a lover, and never married. His odes, with all their exquisite fancy and splendid... | |
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