 Retirement then might hourly look Upon a soothing scene, Age steal to his allotted nook Contented and serene ; With heart as calm as lakes that sleep, In frosty moonlight glistening ; Or mountain rivers, where they creep Along a channel smooth and deep,...  Dauntless, by the author of 'Hands not hearts'. - Page 77by Dauntless - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
...SIDNEY'S JOURNAL. A strange dissembling sex we women are ; Well may we men, when we ourselves, deceive. Oh ! that our lives, which flee so fast, In purity...image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch. WORDSWORTH. DECEMBER 26th. A day of consultation, of disquiet, of preparation for the ball. It went... | |
 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 pages
...fancy, works Those spectres to dilate That startle conscience as she lurks Within her lonely seat. Oh ! that our lives, which flee so fast, In purity...image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch ! WORDSWORTH. How strange and inscrutable are the ways of Providence! A few weelts after Baynton was... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Mozley - 1841 - 396 pages
...gave up her wish for sitting up, and before long the young friends sought their beds. CHAPTER XXVIII. Oh, that our lives, which flee so fast, In purity...image of the past, Should fear that pencil's touch ! Wordsworth's Memory. THE departure of the two cousins made a change in the proceedings of those left... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...Fancy, works Those Spectres to dilate That startle Conscience, as she lurks Within her lonely seat. О ! that our lives, which flee so fast, In purity were...image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch ! Retirement then might hourly look Upon a soothing scene, Age steal to his allotted nook Contented... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Fancy, works Those Speetres to dilate That startle Conscience, as she lurks Within her lonely seat O ! that our lives, which flee so fast, In purity were...image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch ! Retirement then might hourly look Upon a soothing scene, Age steal to his allotted nook Contented... | |
 | Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 pages
...fancy, works Those spectres to dilate, That startle conscience, as she lurks Within her lonely seat. Oh, that our lives, which flee so fast, In purity...image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch ! Retirement, then, might hourly look Upon a soothing scene, Age steal to his allotted nook, Contented... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Mozley - 1847 - 314 pages
...gave up her wish for sitting up, and before long the young friends sought their beds. CHAPTER XXVIII. Oh, that our lives, which flee so fast, In purity...image of the past, Should fear that pencil's touch ! Wordsworth's Memory. more in the drawing-room, with their two mammas, and George sometimes went out... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 612 pages
...talents wrongly used ! tor the dark picture which must be too often drawn by the pencil of memory ! "Oh ! that our lives, which flee so fast, In purity...image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch. Ketircment then might hourly look Upon a soothing scene ; Aye steal to his allotted nook, Contented... | |
 | 1848 - 322 pages
...often drawn hy the pencil of memory ! " Oh ! that our lives, which flee so fast, lu purity were such i That not an image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch. Retirement then might hourly look Upon a soothing scene ; Age steal to his allotted nook, Contented... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pages
...startle Conscience, as she lurks Within her lonely seat. O ! that our lives, which flee so fast, Tn purity were such, That not an image of the past Should fear that pencil's touch ! Retirement then might hourly look Upon a soothing scene, Age steal to his allotted nook, Contented... | |
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