 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Страниц: 746
...seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy inargent green, The paths of pleasure trace, M'ho E { } b z inthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball Î... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - Страниц: 490
...And, redolent5 of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames ! 6 for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent...With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet 7 which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed 1 Ye — ie ye towers of Windsor Castle. * Whose turf,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Страниц: 868
...fair. Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Pastoral 3. v. 66. Wednesday. Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent...delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? Gray. On a distant Prospect of Eton College. And so [Mr. Pope] after having disported himself at... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - Страниц: 772
...Thames ; for thou hast seen Fall many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, The paths ot pleasure trace. Who, foremost now, delight to cleave,...linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed, Tu chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? " While some, on earnest business bent,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Royal Robbins - 1845 - Страниц: 342
...foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave 1 The captive linnet which enthrall 1 What idle progeny succeed, To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flymg ball 1 While some on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1846 - Страниц: 514
...a literal, prosaic, Cockney translation of the admired lines in Gray's Ode to Eton College : — " What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed Or urge the flying ball ?" A man shut up all his life in his shop, without anything to interest him from one year's end to... | |
 | 1847 - Страниц: 490
...And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. " Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent...pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pMant arm thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthrall.' What idle progeny succeed To chase the... | |
 | François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1848 - Страниц: 488
...soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames. » * » * » What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? ***** Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come,... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - Страниц: 416
...soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent...thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral 1 What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While some... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - Страниц: 390
...of the brightness, the motion, and the line of motion. P. 10. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent...delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave 1 The captive linnet which enthral .> What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed,... | |
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Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? 
