 O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flower, 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 ere you can point...  The Pacific Coast Fourth Reader - Σελίδα 1351878 - 240 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 σελίδες
...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;...you can point their place ; Or, like the rainbow's lov ;ly form Evanishing amid the storm.— Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 σελίδες
...their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills 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... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - 1826 - 664 σελίδες
...of the great Scottish Theocritus, in the following exquisitely beautiful accumulation 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 σελίδες
...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 form, Evanishing... | |
 | George Beattie - 1826 - 130 σελίδες
...pleasures arc like poppies spread, \ou seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls hi the river, A moment white— then melts for ever; Or like the borcalis race, That Hit— ere yon can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 σελίδες
...regrets ? The evanescent nature of such gratifications is fully adequate to produce this effect, for 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... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 σελίδες
...they kindled a fire and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold." 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 forever; • Or like the borealis race, That... | |
 | 1827 - 674 σελίδες
...a better instance of this than the following passage from Tarn d' 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, '... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 σελίδες
...alone, generally comes into the world with a heart melting at every fictitious distress. Goldsmith. 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. Burnt. MELTING CONE, in assaying,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 σελίδες
...not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards.and found herthere. — Dry den. cvm. 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... | |
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