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" GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting.... "
An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets - Page 96
by Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 436 pages
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...vivere lustro. Tu vero faustos quicunque voles hymenaeos, Aspice in octavo qualis sit Delia lustro. XX. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting...
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...vivere lustro. Tu vero faustos quicunque voles hymenœos, Aspice in octavo qualis sit Delia lustro. XXI. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting...
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - 1846 - 340 pages
...lustro. Tu vero faustos quicunque voles hymenasos, Aspice in octavo qualis sit Delia lustro. XX. GATHEK ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...honey yields, but never stings. To Ле Virgin», to make muck of Лаг Time. Gather the rose-buds, smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting,...
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An Essay on English Poetry; with notices of the British poets. [Edited by ...

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...between truth and falsehood, but from being: too indolent to examine the difference. Herrick, if O " we were to fix our eyes on a small portion of his...will be dying." * [Told on the authority of Dryden. (Malone, vol. iv. p. 6 1 2.) Yet Burnet, Joseph Warton, and Johnson speak of Cowley as Rochester's...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 1

1850 - 544 pages
...effusion of i Hercick " to the Virgins, to make much ofTuue," beginning — " Gather you rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower, that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.*1 The following "Answer" appeared "map tion not so well known...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 1

1850 - 524 pages
...efiusion of Herrick " to the Virgins, to make much of Time," beginning — •' Gather you rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower, that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying." The following "Answer" appeared in a publication not so well...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow. GATHER THE ROSE-BUDS. Gather the rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting,...
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Home and Social Philosophy: Or, Chapters on Every-day Topics, Volume 2

1852 - 252 pages
...Herrick has signalised himself by the finest " Anacreontic" in our language. I mean the one beginning, " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may : Old Time is still a-flying, And the same flower that blooms to day, To-morrow will be dying." Here is a pretty love conceit. "TO ELECTRA....
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Reddenda; or, Passages with parallel hints for translation into Latin prose ...

Frederick Edward Gretton - 1853 - 152 pages
...perpetual darkness, shall henceforth know still silence." TO THE VIBGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. VII. Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying : And this same flower, that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting...
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