 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...Care, mad to see a man «ae happy, E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' ladesb o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...storm a whistle. Crue, mad to see a man sae happy, E'un drowned himsel' amang the nappy. As bees i!ee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure. Kins* niay be blest, bul Tam was glorious ; O'er'all the ills o' life victorious." Falstaffmust be... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 pages
...victorious !" Such is the happy state of Tam O'Shanter as the poet presents him in the first scene. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...once.) Every thing and every person are brought into unity of time and place. You see them together. " Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!" Such is the happy state of Tam O'Shanter as the poet presents him in the first scene. " But pleasures... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...But its tone is gone ; 'tis stricken now ; The CURSE of pleasure is on my brow." 6. But pleasures arc like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r — its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, — A moment white — then lost forever ; Or like the borealis race, That... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy ; As bees flee name 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 like poppies spread, You... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, Ji'en drown'd himself amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man »ae happy, E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy j s, my friend," said he, " a woful case ; We cannot...succeed ; I now command The Betsy sloop, and am not Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You... | |
 | Caroline Augusta Soule - Sermons, American - 1852 - 410 pages
...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 shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment while — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis racej That flit... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...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... | |
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