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 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 390 pages
...describes the happy temper of boyhood:— " Gay hope is theirs by fanry fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast; Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit. invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour horn : The... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1849 - 588 pages
...gushing forth from unselfish hearts — " Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast." Boast then no more my dear E. of volcanic mountains whose intestine fires and flaming tops penetrate... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is their's by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Their's buxom health, of rosy hne ; Wild wit, invention ever new; And lively cheer, of vigour born... | |
 | William Wallace Fyfe - 1851 - 408 pages
...permitting nothing, however minute, to escape, but constantly on the wing in pursuit of something — " Less pleasing when possessed; The tear forgot as soon as shed ; The sunshine of the breast"— like Gray's " insect youth" of Eton. The other, Amelia, is the contemplative life. She is grave as... | |
 | American Sunday-School Union - Children - 1851 - 256 pages
...such a group as that near us, and found myself repeating — Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ;... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...whicl may hereafter await them, " Gay hope is theirs, by fancy led, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the approach of... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - 1851 - 574 pages
...Distant Prospect of Eton College. * " Gay hope is theirs, by faney fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast ; Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born ;... | |
 | Sophocles - Greek drama - 1851 - 362 pages
...College, v. 41 fg., thus writes : — " Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigor born ;... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - Hawaii - 1851 - 446 pages
...down to the sea to play and bathe. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. Their's buxom health, of rosy hue; Wild writ, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigor born; The... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ;4 The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast ; Their's buxom health, of rosy hue ; Wild wit, invention ever new ; And lively cheer, of vigour born... | |
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