 | Isaac Watts - 1807
...And tell you, ' 'Tis all but in sport.' THE ROSE. How fair is the rose ! what a beantiful flower ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerftd virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809
...betimes to love working am §61. TlieHosr. Watts. Hmv fair is the Rose! \vlrnt a beautiful flow'r! 'gular. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks...what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In ev'ry J"et the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flow'rs of the field : [lost, When its... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810
...tell you " 'Tis all but in sport." III. THE ROSE. How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...an hour, And they wither and die. in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, • Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...is the rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are. iKginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...fair is the rose! what a heautiful flower! The --'lory of April and May ! Bio the leaves are heginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet thr rose has one powerful virtue to hoast, .Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! So frail is the... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813
...tell you, " 'Tis all but in sport." HI. The Rote. 1 HOW fair is the Rose ! what a beautiful flow' r ! The glory of April and May : But the leaves are beginning...fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. s Vet the Rote has onepowerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...SECTION VII. THE BOSE. How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flow'r! In summer so fragrant and gay! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one pow'rful virtue to boast, Above all the flow'rs of the field: Whewits leaves are all dead,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 166
...SECTION IX. The, Rose. 1. How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flow'rl In summer so fragrant and gay! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. 2. Yet the rose has one pow'rful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field: When its leaves... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 242
...summer's feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest. THE ROSE. How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May : But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, An(f they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful beauty to boast Above all the flowers... | |
 | 1820
...him at once freshness, fragrancy, colour, and shape. How fair is the rose/ what a brant ifni flower! The glory of April and May ! . But the leaves are...fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day 1 1 The Hon. W. Spencer mentioned to Lord Erskine a remarkable instance of these ephemera in a whitish... | |
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