 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...of Jove : And where her mazy waters flow He gave the mantling vine to grow, A trophy to his love. 7 Shall man from Nature's sanction stray, With blind...guide ; And, rebel to her rightful sway, Leave all her beauties unenjoyed? Fool! Time no change of motion knows; With equal speed the torrent flows, To sweep... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 pages
...run ! Trembling too, my shadow flies, And by its very likeness dies. w. PATTISON. cxxx LIVE TO-DAY SHALL man from Nature's sanction stray, With blind...power, and wealth away : The past is all by death possest ; And frugal Fate that guards the rest, By giving, bids him live to-day. E. FENTON. CXXXI THE... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...6 Eng. Poets, xxxv. 350. ' Ib. p. 366. The best lines are Horace's ' Carpe diem' amplified : — ' Fool ! Time no change of motion knows ; With equal...fame, power and wealth away. The past is all by death possessed, And frugal fate that guards the rest, By giving, bids him live to-day.' Fenton was to have... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1908 - 638 pages
...did not do justice. Genius might at least have been allowed to a poet who could write like this : ' Shall man from Nature's sanction stray With blind...rebel to her rightful sway, Leave all her bounties unenjoy'cl ? Fool I Time no change of motion knows ; With equal speed the torrent flows, To sweep Fame,... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 502 pages
...o'er the waters run! Trembling too, my shadow flies, And by its very likeness dies. cxxx LIVE TO-DAY SHALL man from Nature's sanction stray, With blind...power, and wealth away : The past is all by death possest; And frugal Fate that guards the rest, By giving, bids him live to-day. CXXXI THE TOPER E.... | |
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Shall man from Nature's sanction stray, With blind Opinion for his guide; And, rebel to her rightful sway, Leave all her bounties unenjoy'd? Fool! time no change of motion knows ; With equal speed the torrent flows, To sweep fame, power, and wealth away:... 
