 | Capel Lofft - 1846 - 528 pages
...thoughts are floating in the brain, and probably about to die into nothing, to vanish away for ever, — " Like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or, like Ihe snow falls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever " ; upon that comes this potent interceder,... | |
 | 1989 - 692 pages
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 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever;...place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing am'nl the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride , That hour... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1848 - 478 pages
...Books are all " like poppies spread, We seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." If no works were published but those professedly written for the press, printers might leave off business.... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 pages
...flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." Were there ever such beautiful reflections upon such a scene ? And think of the suddenness of the transition... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, — A moment white — then lost forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — BURNS. 7. Give Pleasure's name to naught but what has passed The authentic seal of Reason, and... | |
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1848 - 556 pages
...They are so evanescent and so changeable, that it may almost be said they are " Like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever : Or like the borealis race, That flit ere ye can point the place." This renders them difficult to sketch, however I have endeavored to represent... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." This is very true. The men of pleasure have been amongst the most miserable of men. If we wish to be... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 pages
...Or like the enow-falls in the river, A niumeat white — then melts for ever ; Or like the boreali» race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or...man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o* night's black arch the key-staner That dreary hour he mounts hie beast... | |
 | Roderick Watson - 1995 - 760 pages
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... 
