 | John Bell - 1789 - 426 էջ
...Thus cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay, And calm with your joys gently glide through the day. The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in chat or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure along.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 498 էջ
...Thus cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay, And calm with your joys gently glide through the day. The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 502 էջ
...wisdom, with innocence gay, ArSf calm with your joys gently glide through th» The dews of tneevening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 էջ
...readers will recollect the celebrated couplet of Lord Chesterfield, in his Advice to a Lady in Autumn : The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the iky for the loss of the sun. Gray, in his Elegy in a Country Churchyard, exhibits a fine picture of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 380 էջ
...than these verses of lord Chesterfield? Mowbray, you who are a judge, listen to these two lines: ' The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun." Now, here's your friend, Mr. Harrington, says it's only a prettiness, and something about Ovid. I'm... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 376 էջ
...than these verses of lord Chesterfield ? Mowbray, you who are a judge, listen to these two lines : * The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.' Norn, here's your friend, Mr. Harrington, says it's only a prettiness, and something about Ovid. I'm... | |
 | and Fellow of a college in Cambridge Master of Arts - 1828 - 326 էջ
...has put this metaphor in the best form, but it is still a mere conceit — " The dews of the ev'ning most carefully shun " Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun." defect generally lies in the inaptitude or want pf similarity in the image. It is the iron door of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1839 - 550 էջ
...Chesterfield ? Mowbray, you who are a judge, listen to these two lines : ' The dews of the evening moat carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.' Now, here's your friend, Mr. Harrington, says it's only a ftrettiness, and something about Ovid. I'm... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - 492 էջ
...Scotland. (Ann. Regist. 1775, part ip 138.) t Reprinted at vol. ii. p 3ii1— 424 of the present edition. " The dews of the evening most carefully shun, " Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun ! " As also the following : " ' Mary, bring me my gown !' " Slip on that ere you rise, let your caution... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 586 էջ
...than these verses of Lord Chesterfield ? Mowbray, you, who are a judge, listen to these two lines : ' The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.' Now, here's your friend, Mr. Harrington, says it's only a prettiness, and something about Ovid. I'm... | |
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The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. 
