 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
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 468 Seiten
...contrasting the human species with the insect world, emphatically remarks :— x 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 Bat flutter thro' life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest ; Brush' d... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 Seiten
...noon : Some lightly o'er the current fkim, Some fhow their gaily-gilded trim Qmck glancing to the fun. To contemplation's fober eye Such is the race of man...began. Alike the bufy and the gay • But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drefl : BruftVd by .the hand of rough mifchance,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...current skim ; Some ihow 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 dress' d ; Brush'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 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'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 Seiten
...current skim, Some show their gayly-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'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 Seiten
...current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the snn. 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 Seiten
...intimacies, cheerful gaiety, and the cultivation of lighter literature — but that life has closed, for they that creep and they that fly Shall end where they began ! A Bath paper says, " On Wednesday last, May 2, in the 82d year of lier api-, at Clifton, died Hester... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 Seiten
...skim, Some show their gaily gilded trim Quick glancing to the Sun 3 . To Contemplation's sober eye 4 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 through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd: Brush'd... | |
 | 1823 - 448 Seiten
...frost. PO ET R Y. THE HIGH COURT OF DIANA. Far the Sporting Magazine. THE WRONG SIDE OF THE POST. " And they that creep— and they that fly— " Shall end where they began." ППНАТ life's a race, we all confess, ж And, mid the motley host Who run, 'tig fair that some... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 Seiten
...current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim, Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay But nutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours drest : Brush'd... | |
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