| 1778 - 626 pages
...which readers of taste will feel, when they learn The Unes her« a!this anecdote. luded toare: — < The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And floal amid the liquid noon: Somelighiljr o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily gilded trim Quick... | |
| James Anderson - 1793 - 386 pages
...LITERARY OLLA. No. x. Cray the Pact,— d dialogue, concerning Youth. To D***d M*****u E*****e. — ' The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current fkirn, Some fliew their gaily gilded trim, Quick glancing to the sun. ' To contemplation's sober eye,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...hand of Care; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : (b) Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how'thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: (b) Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon : b Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...hand of Care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the...liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some shew their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wjjig, Hager to taste the honey'd m Combat to all, and Ixire away the (lame ; And taught the woods to eelm 10 the si ream 1 li gaily gilded trim Quick-glaucing to the sun. , To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honey'd spring, And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim. Some shew their gaily gilded trim, Quick -glancing to the sun. To Contemplation's sober eye. Such is the... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...of Care : The panting herd's repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! thfi liquid noun !: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing... | |
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