Yes, darling; let them go;" so ran the strain: "Yes; let them go, gain, fashion, pleasure, power, And all the busy elves to whose domain Belongs the nether sphere, the fleeting hour. "Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the... Picturesque Quebec: A Sequel to Quebec Past and Present - Page 66by Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1882 - 535 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1876 - 1204 pages
...slumbering child are too numerous for quotation ; their gist may be gathered from these seven stanzas : '• Of the fair brotherhood who share my grace, I, from...a nobler place, I keep for none a happier than for thce. " There are who, while to vulgar eyes they seem Of all my bounties largely to partake, Of me... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pages
...elves to whose domain Belongs the nether sphere, the fleeting hour. Mine, says the beautiful vision, Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. She pronounces the babe free of her brotherhood — And if for some I keep a nobler place, I keep for... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 374 pages
...hour. • " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall leave... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pages
...[December, " ' Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign, Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. " ' Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall... | |
| 1860 - 860 pages
...hour. ' Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. ' Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall leave... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 pages
...hour. " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of 'dream* Mine all the past, and all the future mine. ** Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 pages
...hour. " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream. Mine all the past, and all the future mine. " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall leave... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 372 pages
...hour. " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall leave... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 738 pages
...fleeting hour " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign, Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, ami all the ftiture mine. " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 760 pages
...fleeting hour " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign, Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall leave... | |
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