| Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 268 pagina’s
...midst of it," replied Fox. It is intermixed with the shrubs and flawers, and plays its part among them. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain," &c. I hardly... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pagina’s
...When learning's triumph o'er his barb'rous foei First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new ; Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain, His powerful... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pagina’s
...When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare .rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful... | |
| John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pagina’s
...fantastical and light, With fluttering wings do keep her still awake. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new ; Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain. DR. JOHNSON,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pagina’s
...interpreted, the transcendent genius ,of the author whom he had so eloquently pictured in verse :— " Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new; Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him hi vain." After an interval... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pagina’s
...1747. WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pagina’s
...166. This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. Line 176. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagin'd new. Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre. And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. Ibid. For... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1875 - 1146 pagina’s
...When Learning's triumph o'er his barb'rous foes. First rear'd the stage, immortal Shak>peare rose; rt. — • Where is he ? Ner. He : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reipn, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain." SHAKSPEARE'S... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pagina’s
...166. This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. Line 176. n Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagin'd new. Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre. And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. Ibid. For... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pagina’s
...When learning's triumph o'er his barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new ; Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain, His powerful... | |
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