| Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 페이지
...o' life victorious ! 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 ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 페이지
...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 place ; Or, like the rainbow's lovely... | |
| Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 페이지
...enjoyed in this little excursion, I can scarcely think it real, so faint a trace has it left behind. 'Tis 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 place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
| William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 페이지
...exuberance and profusion. Our works are like to poppies strewn, You seize the fiWr, the bloom is gone : Or, like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or, like the Borealis' race, Which flits ere you can point the place; Or, like the rainbow's lovely... | |
| Francis S. Higginson - 1825 - 586 페이지
...flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amidst the storm ; Or, like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then fades for ever." BURNS. The attentions of Manderville had now for some time been almost exclusively... | |
| Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - 1826 - 664 페이지
...of similes : " 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; Or like the Borealis race, That Jlit ere you can point their place; Or like the Rainbow's lovely form,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 페이지
...as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the bloom is shed, Or like the snow, falls in the river, A 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 페이지
...as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the 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 place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 페이지
...as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the 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 place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
| 1827 - 674 페이지
...Shanter : — ' But pleasures arc 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 flit ere you can point their place ; ' Or, like the rainbow's... | |
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