 | Catherine Sinclair - 1846 - 338 Seiten
...snow-falls on the river, A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit e'er you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amidst the storm. LADY ASHCOURT seemed to awaken suddenly, as from a dream, to the consciousness that... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 Seiten
...its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit -ere you can point...place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing am'nl the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride , That hour... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 Seiten
...its bloom is shed ! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." Were there ever such beautiful reflections upon such a scene ? And think of the suddenness of the transition... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1848 - 478 Seiten
...the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever : Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." If no works were published but those professedly written for the press, printers might leave off business.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, — A moment white — then lost forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — BURNS. 7. Give Pleasure's name to naught but what has passed The authentic seal of Reason, and... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 232 Seiten
...of the whole mood of the mind again. " Nae man can tether time or tide;— The hour approaches, Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black arch, the...key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in; An' sic a night he takes the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in.'' This gives us a tolerable... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever; Or like the boreahs race. That fiit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nac man can tether time nor tide: The hour approaches Tam maun ride — That hour, o' night's black... | |
 | Alex Davis, Lee M. Jenkins - 2000 - 318 Seiten
...flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white - then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.56 This same passage surely underpins not the vocabulary but several key images brought together... | |
 | W. Gifford-Jones - 2000 - 278 Seiten
...like the snowfall in the river, / A moment white then gone forever, / Or like the borealis rays, / That flit ere you can point their place, / Or like the rainbow's lovely form, / Vanishing amid the storm." Dr. W. eifford-Jones Sang in choir, St. Stephen's Church, Niagara Falls,... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 600 Seiten
...Are mine alone. Robert Burns wrote in "Tarn O'Shanter": A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place. Benjamin Disraeli, an architect of the British empire and one of its foremost prime ministers, once... | |
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O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their... 
