 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...— 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...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — .Vii. man can tether time or tide, The hour approaches, Tarn maun ride ; That hour o' night's black... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1855 - 320 pages
...pleasures are like poppies spread ; "We snatch the flawcr, the bloom is fled ; Or like the snow-falls on the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or...place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amidst the storm.' BCENS. LADY ASHCOUET seemed to awaken suddenly, as from a dream, to the consciousness... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...shed; Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the boiealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or...Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour approaches Tain maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...there. — Dryden. CVIIL Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white...amid the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide. Burns. CIX. There is only one quarter of an hour in human Jift passed ill, and that is between the... | |
 | Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 pages
...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;...Nae 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 Tam mounts his beast... | |
 | Jeremy J. Smith - 1996 - 194 pages
...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...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. (Kinsley 1968:444-445) In Scots, the rhyme-pair bush: thrush did not exist; the contemporary Scots... | |
 | Alex Davis, Lee M. Jenkins - 2000 - 318 pages
...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;...like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.56 This same passage surely underpins not the vocabulary but several key images brought together... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 600 pages
...are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone. Robert Burns wrote in "Tarn O'Shanter": A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the...Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place. Benjamin Disraeli, an architect of the British empire and one of its foremost prime ministers, once... | |
 | Thomas Worthington King - 2003 - 318 pages
...You seize the 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...rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm— & etc The ship begins to look like herself again—the main royal yard was sent up today & the flying... | |
 | Thomas Worthington King - 2003 - 318 pages
...You seize the 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...place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amia the storm— & etc The ship begins to look like herself again—the main royal yard was sent up... | |
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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... 
