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" So passeth in the passing of a day Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower... "
De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence - Page 165
by Robert Plumer Ward - 1827
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Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem, Volume 2

Torquato Tasso - 1792 - 406 pages
...approving choir with joy rene\* Their rapturous mufic, and their loves purfue. So pafleth, in the pafling of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf; the bud, the flower, 'Ne more doth flourifli after firft decay, That earft was fought to deck both bed and bower, Of many a lady and many...
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The Nursery Garland: Being a Selection of Short, Classical Poems, Adapted to ...

W. M. - Children - 1801 - 356 pages
...(he doth broad difplay ; Lo ! fee foon after, how me fades and falls away. So pafleth in the palling of a day, Of mortal Life the leaf, the bud, the flower, No more doth flourish after firft decay, That erft was fought to deck both bed and bower Of many a...
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Jerusalme delivered; an heroick poem: tr. by J. Hoole, Volume 2

Torquato Tasso - 1807 - 338 pages
...and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display; Lo! see soon after, how she fades and falls away. So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower, Ke more doth flourish after first decay. That earst was sought to deck botli bed and bower. Of many...
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Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem, Volume 2

Torquato Tasso - 1810 - 414 pages
...love ! He ceas'd : th' approving choir with joy renew Their rapturous music, and their loves pursue. So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower, No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower, Of many a...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display ; Lo ! see soone after how she fades away ! So passeth, in the passing of a day Of mortal life, the leafe, the bud, the flowre.' FaKry Qwxne, 2, xl. 64, 65. ' Tel qu' un beau lys au milieu des champs,...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...and free Her bared bosom she doth brnad display; Lo, see soon after, how she fades and falls away. So passeth in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leale, the hud, the flowre, Ne more doth flourish after first decay, That earst was sought to deck...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display; Lo! see soon after, how she fades and falls away! So passeth in the passing of a day • Of mortal life...decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour! Gather therefore the rose whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...free, Her bared bosom she doth broad display ; Lo; see soon after, how sl'.c fades and falls away ! " So passeth in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the (lo-.v'r ; Nor more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bow'r,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display ; Lo, see soon after, how she fades and falls away. " ty compell'd: Nor more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display ; Lo, see soon after, how she fades and falls away. " st virtue with his greatest bliss ; At onee his own bright prospeet to be blest, A Nor more doth flourish after first deeay, That erst was sought to deek both bed and bower Of many a...
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