 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muses' heavenly lays. With toil of sprite, which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought. That there is nothing lighter than vain praise. I know frail beauty 's like the purple flower, To which... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...fairest stales have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprighl which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are son That there is nothing lighter than vain praise. I know frail beauty's like the purple flow'r, To... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few, or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than vain praise. I know frail beauty like the purple flower, To which one mom oft birth and death affords, That love a jarring is of minds' accords, Where sense and will cnvassal... | |
 | William Drummond - Poetry, Modern - 1856 - 406 pages
...sounds, of few or none are sought, And that nought lighter is than airy praise ; I know frail beauty's like the purple flower, To which one morn oft birth...jarring is of minds' accords, Where sense and will invassal reason's power : Know what I list, this all can not me move, But that, O me ! I both must... | |
 | William Drummond - Poetry, Modern - 1856 - 382 pages
...fairest states have fatal nights and days ; I know how all the Muse's heavenly lays, With toil of spright which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few...nought lighter is than airy praise ; I know frail beauty's like the purple flower, To which one morn oft birth and death affords ; That love a jarring... | |
 | william b. turnbull - 1856 - 402 pages
...fairest states have fatal nights and days; I know how all the Muse's heavenly lays, With toil of spright which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few...that nought lighter is than airy praise; I know frail beauty's like the purple flower, To which one morn oft birth and death affords; That love a jarring... | |
 | William Drummond - Poetry, Modern - 1856 - 386 pages
...fairest states have fatal nights and days ; I know how all the Muse's heavenly lays, With toil of spright which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few...nought lighter is than airy praise ; I know frail beauty's like the purple flower, To which one morn oft birth and death affords ; That love a jarring... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Great Britain - 1856 - 430 pages
...fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muses' heavenly lays, With toil of sprite, which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few, or none are sought; That there is nothing lighter than vain praise. I know frail beauty's like the purple flower, Which... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...shall return to naught ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sp'rit which are so dearly...bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought ; That there is nothing lighter than vain praise. I know frail beauty's like the purple flower, To... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 570 pages
...father's lore and words I scorn'd as rain. I know that all the Muses' heavenly lays, With toil of spirit which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than vain praise; Know what I list, this all cannot me move, But that,... | |
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I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought In Time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muses... 
