 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 oldal
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to thy root — and time has been When tempests could not. At thy firmest age Thou hadst within thy bole... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 oldal
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth from almost...Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shako thec to thy root — and time has been When tempests could not. At thy firmest age Thou hadst... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 404 oldal
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root—and time has been When tempests could not. At thy firmest age Thou hadst within thy bole solid... | |
 | 1860 - 784 oldal
...at the last, The rottenness which time is cliurg'd to indict On other mighty ones, found also thee. se I can make is, that it flowed almost — anil time has been When tempests could not.* With these acknowledged claims to popular favor, it... | |
 | William Cowper - 1863 - 540 oldal
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...into a state Of matchless grandeur, and declension thenca, Slow, into such magnificent decay. Time was when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee... | |
 | Margaret Plues - 1863 - 438 oldal
...have purloined The auburn net that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to thy roots ; and tune has been When tempests could not. Time made thee what thou wert — king of the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 622 oldal
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...decay. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Lould shake thee to the root — and time has been When tempests could not. At thy firmest age Thou... | |
 | William Cowper - 1866 - 720 oldal
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itaelf, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to thy root — and time has heen When tempests could not. At thy firmest age Thou hadst within thy bole... | |
 | William Grainge - 1871 - 542 oldal
...in a most singular manner. It is evidently of great age — a genuine relic of the old forest day. " Time was, when settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake...root. — And time has been When tempests could not. Time made thee what thou wast — king of the woods, And time has made thee what thou art — a cave... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 oldal
...to the cause Of their best tone their dissolution owe. Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost...when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake -thee to thy root — and time has been When tempests could not. At thy firmest age Thou hadst within thy bole... | |
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Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost nullity into a state Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could... 
