| John Bell - 1789 - Liczba stron: 426
...Thus cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay, And calm with your joys gently glide through the day. The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in chat or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure along.... | |
| Robert Southey - 1807 - Liczba stron: 498
...Thus cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay, And calm with your joys gently glide through the day. The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure... | |
| Robert Southey - 1807 - Liczba stron: 502
...wisdom, with innocence gay, ArSf calm with your joys gently glide through th» The dews of tneevening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure... | |
| Richard Lobb - 1817 - Liczba stron: 430
...readers will recollect the celebrated couplet of Lord Chesterfield, in his Advice to a Lady in Autumn : The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the iky for the loss of the sun. Gray, in his Elegy in a Country Churchyard, exhibits a fine picture of... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - Liczba stron: 380
...different thing," lady Anne said, "from having them in her album; so Mr. Harrington must be so very good." I did not understand the particular use of copying...university. What have we to do with Ovid in London ?" " His Art of Love, Anne, my dear, excepted," said Mowbray, slily. " Art! " said lady Anne, " nonsense!... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - Liczba stron: 376
...different thing," lady Anne said, "from having them in her album; so Mr. Harrington must be so very good." I did not understand the particular use of copying...shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.' Norn, here's your friend, Mr. Harrington, says it's only a prettiness, and something about Ovid. I'm... | |
| and Fellow of a college in Cambridge Master of Arts - 1828 - Liczba stron: 326
...has put this metaphor in the best form, but it is still a mere conceit — " The dews of the ev'ning most carefully shun " Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun." defect generally lies in the inaptitude or want pf similarity in the image. It is the iron door of... | |
| 1845 - Liczba stron: 718
...as a model of affected >rettine&9: <'J !»•-»«;•;• * •• i .w , ; . . ' j.. ••,.;. « The dews oF the evening most carefully shun, ' ' Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.' An extempore couplet in: a different style has been preserve'd jy a foreigner : f Sir Thomas Robinson,'... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - Liczba stron: 492
...Scotland. (Ann. Regist. 1775, part ip 138.) t Reprinted at vol. ii. p 3ii1— 424 of the present edition. " The dews of the evening most carefully shun, " Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun ! " As also the following : " ' Mary, bring me my gown !' " Slip on that ere you rise, let your caution... | |
| 1898 - Liczba stron: 712
...away, till they infuse Deep into nature's breast the spirit of her hues. But Chesterfield said :— The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. 'Advice to a Lady in Autumn.' HENRY GERALD HOPE. Clapham, SW ST. FUKSEY (9 th S. ii. 25, 104).—It... | |
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