| Thomas Gray, William Mason - English poetry - 1820 - 548 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father THAMES, for...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for...race Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pic 8 sure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father Thames, for...delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave i The captive linnet which enthrall What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed,... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...impar, equitare in uiurulinu longa. And Gray alludes thus to sports : — Say, Father Thames, for tliou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on...pliant arm thy glassy wave? The captive Linnet which enthrall? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? See... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for thou host enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
| English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...somewhat to the following effect ; the rarity of the quotation prevents us repeating it correctly : — Say Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, &c. &c. &c. At the very mention of Father Thames Gerard laughed outright ; and draggmg us away into... | |
| 1825 - 424 pages
...LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND GENERAL INFORMATION, No. XIIL] SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1825. [PRICE 3rf. of public SAY, FATHER THAMES, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on this raargent green, The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arms... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a seeond ad request, " e raee, Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure traee, Who foremost now delight to eleave... | |
| Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. 20 Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Vcr. 11. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade !] Mr. Wakefield here quotes from the Odyssey, O. 397.... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father Thames (for...pliant arm thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthrall What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? While... | |
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