 Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white ; " The blood once fervid now to cool began, " And Time's strong pressure to subdue the man : * I rode or walk'd as I was wont before, " But now the bounding spirit was no more ; " A moderate pace would...  Ormington, or Cecil, a peer [signed N. or M.]. - Side 252av Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1842Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 sider
...and brought them into view nine or ten, or, at all events, six or seven years too early. " Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began...tricks ! The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, [while ; Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching The blood once fervid now to cool began, And... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 sider
...?"— " Dear Father ! yes." THE APPKOACH OF AGE. (From " Tales of the Hall.") Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his...once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, displayed the encroaching white ; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | 1867 - 502 sider
...no great thinker, has enrolled himself among chess-players of this order : — Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When time began to play his usual tricks ; My locks, once comely in the virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt the encroaching white.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 sider
...noble passion, misnamed pride GRADUAL APPROACHES OF AGE. Six years had passed, and forty ere the ?ix, When time began to play his usual tricks; The locks,...comely in a virgin's sight,— Locks of pure brown, displayed the encroaching white; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 sider
...cling. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE APPROACH OF AGE. FROM "TALES or THÏ HALL." Six years had passed, d word : "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like displayed the encroaching white ; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1871 - 444 sider
...happening to be the inroads of tune upon beauty, the writer quoted the following lines : — " Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks : My locks, once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, now felt th* encroaching white ;... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 326 sider
...age of forty-six is graphically pourtrayed by the poet Crabbe, as he experienced it : — Six years had pass'd, and forty ere the six, When Time began...once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, display'd the encroaching white ; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | 1872 - 710 sider
...deMan is the maker of immortal fates, [crees. Edward Young. 74. AGE, Approach of. Six years had passed, e yl | ۲ # n z[ k ݇ l I > / 6m >9 displayed the encroaching white ; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1872 - 492 sider
...this passage in the " Old Bachelor," one of the " Tales of the Hall " : — " Six years had passed and forty ere the six When Time began to play his...once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown displayed th' encroaching white. A moderate pace would now my body heat, A walk of moderate length... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 sider
...picture of the gradual onset of senescence. Forty-five plus one is the date. " Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When time began to play his...once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks of pure brown, displayed the encroaching white ; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
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