 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...are diamond sparks, Which dazzle as they pass ? Oh ! who to sober measurement Time's happy fleetness brings, When Birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ! LINES, WRITTEN BENEATH A BUST OF SHAKSPEARE. BY 111 XltY NEELE, ESQ. His was the master-spirit ;... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...are diamond sparks, Which dazzle as they pass ? Oh ! who to sober measurement Time's happy fleetness brings, When Birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ! IJNES, WRITTEN BENEATH A BUST OP 8HAKSPEARE. BY HENRY NEELE, ESQ. His was the master-spirit ; —... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 426 pages
...are diamond sparks, Which dazzle as they pass ? Oh ! who to sober measurement Time's happy fleetness brings, When Birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ! UNES, WRITTEN BENEATH A BUST OF 8HAKSPEARE. BY HENBY NEELE, ESQ. His was the master-spirit ; —... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks. Which dazzle as they pass? Oh ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings 1 ifter MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1832. THE SAFETY OF IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION. THE present position... | |
 | William Robert Spencer (hon.) - 1835 - 268 pages
...tears more precious will mix, To hallow this midnight which closes The year eighteen hundred and six. TO THE LADY ANNE HAMILTON. Too late I staid, forgive...of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ? THANKS TO A LADY FOR HER VERSES WITH A WATER LItY, ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHDAY. MY stream of life has... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1837 - 976 pages
...lovers' weeks invariably do, with a rapidity for which both declared they could not account : — " For who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings — When birds of Paradise have lent The plumage of their wings." Only, as Harry said, " two days !" and yet so much remained to be done.... | |
 | 1842 - 574 pages
...Mowers. ' What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all the sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass ? ' Ah .' who to sober...brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings? ' THE TOTS OF LIFE. ' Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle,... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Irish fiction - 1838 - 222 pages
...lovers' weeks invariably do, with a rapidity for which both declared they could not account : — "For who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings — When birds of Paradise have lent The plumage of their wings." Only, as Harry said, " two days !" and yet so much remained to be done.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...remarks The ebbings of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass * And who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, . When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? JOHN KEATS. 1796-1821. ODB TO A XIGIITIXi; VLE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all the sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass? Ah ! who to sober...brings, .When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings? W. SPENCER. Utque ruunt luteum per vicum impulsa tropsea, Ipsa notant a queis partibus... | |
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OO late I stayed ! forgive the crime, — Unheeded flew the hours ; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of... 
