 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 pages
...minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be bless'd, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a'5 the hills o' life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies...You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 pages
...barae wi ' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings mny be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious....spread; ^ You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; 1 Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1806 - 416 pages
...wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi ' pleasure : » Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious....You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, ., ,.:... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious....But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow Y, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for... | |
 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 pages
...hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure j Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious...But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; O^ like the snow-falls in a river, A moment white then melts for ever ;... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 pages
...the charm is gone ; they separate the parts, and find nothing in them. We may say with Burns, Thrse " pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious...But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, — then melts for... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...name wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure. Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You sei/e the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...the charm is gone ; they separate the parts, and find nothing in them. We may say with Burns, These " pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, ^Thal flit... | |
 | 1829 - 840 pages
...indeed rallied us upon the occasion ; and I thought Julia never appeared half so beautiful as now. " But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is »he«J." So saith Robert Burns ; and, truth to speak, his distich was never more effectually verified... | |
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O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river — A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point... 
