 | François-René de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 382 pages
...now delight to cleavc, Wilh pliant anns, thj glassy wave? The captive linnet wliicb entiirall ? Wbal idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed , Or urge the fljing ball ? Alas ! regard less nf their doom , The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to corne... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wavef The captive linnet which enthrall 1 What idle progeny succeed, To chase the rolling circle's speed, , Or urge the flying balll While some on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 294 pages
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed, To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral 1 What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying hall ?" GRAY. MISSON, in his " Travels in England," translated hy Ozell, p. 304, says, " Besides... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent, Their murm'ring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral f What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...foremost BOW delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which inthral ? What idle progeny succeed, To chase the rolling circle's speed., Or urge the flying ball ? While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which intkraH ly by an oversight of the transcriber. flying ball I While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply "Gainst graver hours,... | |
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Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral? What idle progeny succeed... 
