 | Lady Maria Callcott - Brazil - 1824 - 376 pages
...breaking up a pleasant party — " Pleasures are like poppies spread, — You seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, — A moment white, then lost for ever ; Or like the rainbow's fleeting form, Evanishing amid the storm ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | 1829 - 660 pages
...nappy - - - As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, -- O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.” 4 - We beg our readers will pay particular attention t¿ this passage, fot' it is that from which the... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure . Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills...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 melts for... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...victorious. But-pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or lilte the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Oi like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...the nappy. As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills...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 melts for ever;... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - Bible - 1826 - 664 pages
...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 melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That Jlit ere you can point their place; Or like the Rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm."... | |
 | George Beattie - 1826 - 130 pages
...pleasures arc like poppies spread, \ou seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls hi the river, A moment white— then melts for ever; Or like the borcalis race, That Hit— ere yon can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...him at his word, and no more trace be found of his " Rhymes" upon the onward tide of time than of " the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever !" It might be some increasing consciousness of the frail tenure by which he holds his rank among the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 464 pages
...him at his word, and no more trace be found of his "Rhymes" upon the onward tide of time than of " the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever !" It might be some increasing consciousness of the frail tenure by which he holds his rank among the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...him at his word, and no more trace be found of his " Rhymes " upon the onward tide of time than of " the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever !" It might be some increasing consciousness of the frail tenure by which he holds his rank among the... | |
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O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white - then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their... 
