| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...breast : Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue ; Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of morn. Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they... | |
| American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in ev'ry wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest...Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, • That fly... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1839 - 256 pages
...spirits, and he could not but recall those beautiful lines of the poet Gray to his remembrance, — " Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest...Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention етег-new, And lively cheer of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure,... | |
| Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...exuberance of his wit, a little mischievous, though always with the best intentions : — " Be yours Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of...the slumbers light, That fly the approach of morn." Some of the others were considered quite as good, and after the wishes had been examined, and the breakfast... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Their buxom health, of rosy hue : Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th'... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess' d ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the...Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the...Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th'... | |
| John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...describes the happy temper of boyhood:— " Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the...Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born : The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the... | |
| 1843 - 350 pages
...Still, as they run, they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed , Less pleasing when possest...Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed ; esteem by her real virtues, she also engaged their...sovereigns of England succeeded to the throne in mo vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the... | |
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