 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...have opened his fourth book De Principiit Cogitandi, commenced in 1742. They are both subjoined: * In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast th' imperfect joys expire. • > Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...SONNET THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phrebus lifts his golden fire : The birds' in vain their amorous descant join; Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, 5 A different... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...passages from almost all the poetical writings even of Milton himself." He then quotes Gray's sonnet — " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...expire ! Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new born pleasure brings to happier men : The fields to all their wonted tributes bear, To warm their... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...following SONNET on his decease — In va^n to ME the smiling mornings shine, And reddening- P/iaebus lifts his golden fire; The birds in vain their amorous...anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast th* imperfect joys expire! Yet morning smiles, the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1817 - 192 pages
...THE DEATH OF THE HON R. WEST BY T. GRAY. II n vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'hing Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain...different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish molts no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...He then quotes Gray's sonnet — " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phrebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous...different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melfs no Iieart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire ! Yet morning smiles the busy... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...order to justify himself for adopting (as he thinks he has) " the very language of men," Wordsworth as" In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts hi* golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green... | |
 | James Beattie - 1821 - 230 pages
...GRAY) ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous...notes repine, A different object do these eyes require ; Mv lonely anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast th' imperfect joys expire. Yet morning... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...present life" SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR. WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain...their amorous descant join ; Or cheerful fields resume tbcir green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different object do these eyes require... | |
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In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these... 
