 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 pagina’s
...imbecility itself. This is not colouring, but the exact plain truth,1" and Gray's, " Poor moralist, and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets." Assuredly it would not be a question whether these literary characters should have married, had not... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 598 pagina’s
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art tin m ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! I.... | |
 | 1823 - 622 pagina’s
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art ihou ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! 1.... | |
 | 1823 - 598 pagina’s
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and what art thou ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's ear, We frolic while 'tis May ! TABLE... | |
 | 1823 - 608 pagina’s
...presume to censure its idol, and flutters past me repeating — Poor moralist ! and -what art thou ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded iweetl, No painted plumage to display ; and archly concludes, with mortifying emphasis in an old man's... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pagina’s
...in dost to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : ( Poor moralist 1 and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth, u flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. ' II. ON THE DEATH OF,A... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pagina’s
...reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, 45 No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis Mav. 50 " Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward and downward, thwarting and convolv'd,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pagina’s
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side, Where... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pagina’s
...The sportive kind reply : ' Poor moralist ! and what art thou A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt'ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets,...thy spring is gone : . We frolic while 'tis May.' Gray. THE FIRST OF APRIL. WITH dalliance rude young Zephyr woos Coy May : full oft with kind excuse... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 858 pagina’s
...reply ; " Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meet!, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May." Gay. Then, too, a bard of the preceding centuries introduces " the Shepherd's Holiday," the day we... | |
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But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist... 
