 | Henry Curling - Theater - 1855 - 282 pages
...need ask no more " Than just a highland welcome. " " But pleasures," says the same delightful poet, " are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed." Accordingly, the sudden retire of the bright sun, aud re-commencement of the storm, warned me that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wingM their way wi' pleasureKings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious....moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borcalis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form. Evanishing... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...sulky, sullen dame, Gatherin' her brows like gatherin' storm, Nursin' her wrath to keep it warm. 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.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...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 o' life victorious.' What a lesson do these .words convey of charitable indulgence for the vicious habits of the principal... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...and his cronies, set forth in two lines, the most vivid that revelry was ever told in ; — " Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a" the ills o' life victorious." The transition from the careless, riotous enjoyment at the warm ingleside, by a different strain, giving... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...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 o' life victorious.' What a lesson do these words convey of charitable indulgence for the vicious habits of the principal... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...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 o' life victorious.' What a lesson do these words convey of charitable indulgence for the vicious habits of the principal... | |
 | James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 316 pages
...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....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... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - Missions - 1858 - 468 pages
...flew, that the young men of the Bounty seemed to imagine that the day of departure would never come : " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit... | |
 | F. Macgill - Europe - 1858 - 480 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 flits ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.... | |
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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... 
