 To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.  Poems - Seite 46von Thomas Gray - 1778 - 158 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 508 Seiten
...¡nfeliifr<,m the tbrrfculJ freact, №." M. Green, in the Grotto. Podfley's Uifcellanics, vol. vp 161. And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end...they began. Alike the Bufy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day. In Fortune's varying colours dreft : Brufh'd by the hand of rough Mifchacce,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 Seiten
...skim, Some shew their gaily gilded trim. Quick-glancing to the sunt. T6 Contemplation's sober eyej, 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 thro1 life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest! Brush'd by... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 Seiten
...current 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,...they that fly, Shall 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 Seiten
...current 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,...they that fly. Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...current 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...they that fly Shall end -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... | |
 | 1809 - 402 Seiten
...current 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 - 1810 - 628 Seiten
...waved coats dropp'd with gold. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book ii. VOL. XJV. To Contemplation's sober 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 Seiten
...waved 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... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 Seiten
...coats dropp'd with gold. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book ii. VOL. 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 the gay But flutter through life's little... | |
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