| Thomas Gray - 1853 - Liczba stron: 200
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe. And, redolent of joy and youth. To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames. for thou hast seen Pull many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost... | |
| William Collins - 1854 - Liczba stron: 430
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for...delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave 'I The captive linnet which enthrall'.' What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - Liczba stron: 502
...unity of the impression, the coinherence of the brightness, the motion, and the line of motion. P. 10. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a...thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral I What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball I — GBAY.... | |
| 1854 - Liczba stron: 816
...we find a succession of the same ideas, sprightliness or health, pleasure, and cleaving the wave : " Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a...delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? " And then, to make the resemblance more complete, Duck has " herbage green " to rhyme with " stream... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - Liczba stron: 608
...pleasure trace ; The altar-tomb seen near the church, beside which two figures stand, covers the gvavc Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball?"... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - Liczba stron: 278
...soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, b I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father THAMES, for thou hast seen The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave, "With pliant arm, thy glassy wave?... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - Liczba stron: 276
...wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. 3 Say, father Thames ! for thou hast seen Full many...thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral 1 What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball 1 4 While... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - Liczba stron: 586
...recalling one of the most finished poems of our most finished poet — " Say, Father Thames, for thou ha»t seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace ; AVho foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall?... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - Liczba stron: 586
...recalling one of the most finished poems of our most finished poet— " Say, Father Thames, for thoa hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green. The path» of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave AVith pliant arm thy glassy ware ? The... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - Liczba stron: 272
...and unworthy objection to the next stanza of the poem. Speaking of the address to the Thames — " Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race ; " he says, " Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself." He should have left this... | |
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