 | Europe - 1799 - 678 pages
...quaint allusions, vague and undefin'd, Play faintly round the ear, but mock the mind;— 50 Through the mix'd mass yet Truth and Learning shine, And manly...succeeds to day, In joyless leisure wastes his life away ? In him the flame of early Fancy shone ; His genuine worth his old Companions own; 60 In childhood... | |
 | School - Satire, English - 1801 - 450 pages
...faintly round the ear, but mock the mind; Through fl The Author of •» The Pursuits of Literature." .' Thro' the mix'd mass yet truth and learning shine,...succeeds to day, In joyless leisure wastes his life away ? In him the flame of early fancy shone ; His genuine worth his old companions own ; 60 In childhood... | |
 | Anti-Jacobin The - 1801 - 276 pages
...quaint allusions, vague and undefined, Play faintly round the ear, but mock the mind ; — 50 Through the mix'd mass yet truth and learning shine, And manly...can tell What bashful genius, in some rural cell, * The Author of " the Pursuits of Literature." As year to year, and day succeeds to day, In joyless... | |
 | Europe - 1803 - 674 pages
...quaint allusions, vague and undefin'd, •Play faintly round the ear, but mock the mind ;— 50 Through the mix'd mass yet Truth and Learning shine, And manly...wakes and points the desultory fires! Yet more remain unknoxvn :—for who can tell What bashful Genius, in some rural cell, As year to year, and day succeeds... | |
 | Anti-Jacobin The - 1807 - 258 pages
...Though quaint allusions, vague and undefined, Play fa-ntly round the ear, but mock the mind ; 50 Through the mix'd mass yet truth and learning shine, And manly...succeeds to day, In joyless leisure wastes his life away ? In him the flame of early fancy shone ; His genuine worth his old companions own ; 6« In childhood... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1827 - 106 pages
...vague and undefined, Play faintly round the car, but mock the mind; Through the mix'd mass yet taste and learning shine, And manly vigour stamps the nervous...succeeds to day, In joyless leisure wastes his life away? In him the flame of early fancy shone ; His genuine worth his old companions own ; In childhood and... | |
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...vague and undefined, May faintly round the ear, but mock the mind ; Through the mixed mass yet taste and learning shine, And manly vigour stamps the nervous...inspires, And wakes and points the desultory fires ! • See the motto prefixed to "The Baviad," a satirical poem, by W. Gifford, Esq ; unquestionably... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...quaint allusions, vague and undefined, Play faintly round the ear, but mark the mind : — Through the mix'd mass yet truth and learning shine, And manly...inspires, And wakes and points the desultory fires !" From Mathias the lake poets received a serious castigation. Perhaps, he was too intent upon extirpating... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...quaint allusions, vague and undefined, Play faintly round the ear, but mark the mind : — Through the mix'd mass yet truth and learning shine, And manly...inspires, And wakes and points the desultory fires !" From Mathias the lake poets received a serious castigation. Perhaps, he was too intent upon extirpating... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1835 - 650 pages
...Though quaint allusions, vague and undefined, Play faintly round the ear, but mock the mind ; Through the mix'd mass yet truth and learning shine, And manly...succeeds to day, In joyless leisure wastes his life away ? In him the flame of early fancy shone ; His genuine worth his old companions own ; In childhood and... | |
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Through the mix'd mass yet truth and learning shine, And manly vigour stamps the nervous line : And patriot warmth the generous rage inspires, And wakes and points the desultory fires ! Yet more remain unknown : for who can tell What bashful genius, in... 
