| Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 Seiten
...drives, elate. Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight. Shall be thy doom! Pleasures But pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-fails in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
| Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 Seiten
...not many equals in our poetry: — " But pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the flower — its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then gone for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
| Caroline Augusta White Soule - 1852 - 408 Seiten
...O'Shanter;' yet how simple, natural and real are the metaphors employed to express the thought : — "But pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shea ; Or like the snow-falls iu the river, A moment while — then melts forever; Or like the borealis... | |
| Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 Seiten
...E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy ; As bees llee hame wi' lades b' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure' Kings may be blest, but Tam...the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; V Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 Seiten
...minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, hut Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread,...seize the flow'r — its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit... | |
| John Wilson - 1854 - 252 Seiten
..." and then, by imagery of unequalled loveliness, illustrates at universal and everlasting truth : " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed Or like the snow-tails in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
| John Wilson - 1854 - 252 Seiten
...who cannot perceive that, in all this, though there was no moral purpose, there is a moral effect. ' Kings may be blest but Tam was glorious. O'er a' the ills of life victorious.' What a lesson do these words convey of charitable indulgence for the vicious habits... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1854 - 68 Seiten
...one after the other, a- wave or a bubble ; each lasts its moment, then dies — past off, forgot ; " Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever," while the great stream of humanity rolls ever forward, from time to eternity : — not a... | |
| John Wilson - 1854 - 252 Seiten
...who cannot perceive that, in all this, though there was no moral purpose, there is a moral effect. ' Kings may be blest but Tam was glorious. O'er a' the ills of life victorious.' What a lesson do these words convey of charitable indulgence for the vicious habits... | |
| Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 Seiten
...hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are I&e poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river,... | |
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