 | American Sunday-School Union - Children - 1851 - 256 pages
...us, and found myself repeating — 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... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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 breast ; Theirs buxom Health of rosy hue, Wild AVit, Invention ever new, And lively Cheer, of Vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Less pleasing when possess'd ;4 The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast ; Their's 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'... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 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...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 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...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 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;...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... | |
 | Education - 1908 - 556 pages
...object indeed is well expressed in an ode familiar to us all; it is to secure for its proteges— 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 the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 584 pages
...beyond their years. Let them have their day whilst it lasts — ' yay hope be tne;rSi by fancy icd, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon...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... | |
 | Religion - 2004 - 228 pages
...every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the...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... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 556 pages
...by human emotions, such as ambition and envy, and then by the pains and disappointments of old age: 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! Smith's transition is... | |
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The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. 
