 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...skim, Some shew 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...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,... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...skim, Some shew 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...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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...skim. Some shew 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...-where they began. 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,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Quick-glaucing to the sun. , To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep, ami life. Xow ev'ry leaf and ev'ry moving breath Presents Hut flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colors drest : Kmsri'd by the hand of rough... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...skim. Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Qnick-glauciug to the vai. To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man ; And they that creep , and they that flr, Shall end » here they began. Alike tli6 busy and the gay But flutter thro' life's little day,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...ХПГ. To Contemplation's sober eye 4 Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they Ihat fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...coats dropp'd with gold. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book ii. VOL XIV. To Contemplation's sober eye 4 Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they lifgan. Alike the busy and the gay But flutter through lifr's little day. In Fortune's varying colours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...eye» Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they bogan. 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... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...How little are the Great" was the closing line of a stanza in that ode,3 in which it is said, that " they that creep and they that fly, shall end where they began :" and so he suffered it for some time to stand, in application, no doubt, of his own idea of a closing... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 468 pages
...human species with the insect world, emphatically remarks :— x To Contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they...Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay Bat flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest ; Brush' d by the hand of rough... | |
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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. 
