 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
 | George Crabbe - 1883 - 268 sider
...to such loss your father had agreed."— . " No, for my father's had been loss indeed." ' 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 th' encroaching white ; The blood once fervid now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | 1889 - 366 sider
...Smith, who gives the following lines as a fair sample of Mr. Crabbe's versification : — " 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 ;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 464 sider
...the age of forty-two. Crabbe, in one of his tales, puts it four years later: " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, When time began to play his usual tricks." And then he goes on, in his fine manner, to describe the circumstances which mark the abatement of... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 440 sider
...the age of forty-two. Crabbe, in one of his tales, puts it four years later: " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, When time began to play his usual tricks." And then he goes on, in his fine manner, to describe the circumstances which mark the abatement of... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 sider
...has reached his forty-seventh year, and in the most roundabout way we are told Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his usual tricks. Sometimes he falls to the flattest of flat prose : Something had happened wrong about a bill, Which... | |
 | 1886 - 552 sider
...Eve with her apple-sauce cooked him, inv dear." SAMUEL LOVER. THE ADVANCE OF AGE. SIX years had past, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his...comely in a virgin's sight — Locks of pure brown — displayed th' encroaching white : The blood once fervid now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 sider
...Eve with her apple-sauce cooked him, my dear." SAMUEL LOVEE. THE ADVANCE OF AGE. SIX years had past, and forty ere the six, When Time began to play his...comely in a virgin's sight — Locks of pure brown — displayed th' encroaching white : 344 THE MAIDEN'S REQUEST. I rode or walked as I was wont before,... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - 1897 - 368 sider
...Wordsworth — "An Evening Walk. " Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began t6 play his usual tricks : The locks once comely in a virgin's sight, Locks 6f pure brown, displayed th" encroaching white ; The blood, 6nce fervid, now t6 cool began, And Time's... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 586 sider
...because it soon must cease." — Tales of the Hall. GRADUAL APPROACHES OF AGE. 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 sider
...because it soon must cease." —Tales of the Hall. GRADUAL APPROACHES OF AGE. 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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