 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 pagina’s
...of devotion to a fixed object, dating from a period at which literary plans are mostly dreams or " Like the borealis race. That flit ere you can point their place." The pages which he gave to the world, as well as those which remained to be written, were planned by... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pagina’s
...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...man can tether time or tide ! The hour approaches TAM maun ride! That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane. That dreary hour he mounts his beast... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point...man can tether time or tide, The hour approaches, Tam maun ride ; That hour o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pagina’s
...flow'r, its bloom is shed Or like the snowfalls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." Next instant he returns to Tam; and, humanized by that exquisite poetry, we cannot help being sorry... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pagina’s
...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...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." On the contrary, I think they leave traces of themselves behind them, durable and delightful even in... | |
 | 1872 - 812 pagina’s
...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...Or, like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid t ho storm." But the pleasures of piety, on the contrary, are as permanent as they are pure; as self-renewing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pagina’s
...flow'r—its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white—then melts forever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the*rain bow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.— Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pagina’s
...Kings may he hlest, hut Tum was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! Or like the horealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainhow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide : The hour approaches... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pagina’s
...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...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed on the waves of an incongruous experience, elevated by his gifts, depressed by his condition,... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1846 - 528 pagina’s
...thoughts are floating in the brain, and probably about to die into nothing, to vanish away for ever, — " Like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or, like Ihe snow falls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever " ; upon that comes this potent interceder,... | |
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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... 
