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" Prophet of the ripen'd year ! Thee Phoebus loves, and does inspire ; Phoebus is himself thy sire. : To thee, of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect, happy thou ! Dost neither age nor winter know; But, when thou'st drunk,... "
Swiss Allmends and a Walk to See Them: Being a Second Month in Switzerland - Page 238
by Foster Barham Zincke - 1874 - 367 pages
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The Works of Abraham Cowley, Volume 1

Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pages
...mirth. Happy insect, happy thou ! Dost neither age nor winter know; But, when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among (Voluptuous,...with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest. XI. THE SWALLOW. FOOLISH prater, what dost thou So early at my window do, With thy tuneless serenade...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1

George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...drunk, and danc'd, and sung " Thy fill, the flow'ry leaves among, " (Voluptuous, and wise with all, " Epicurean animal !) " Sated with thy summer feast, " thou retir'st to endless rest." In this ode ^ Otafnt 5f o?o» trmuxat, is beautifully translated — " Fed with nourishment divine,...
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The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...Happy insect, happy thou ! Dost neither age nor winter know ; But, when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among (Voluptuous,...with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest. XI. THE SWALLOW. FOOLISH prater, what dost thou So early at my window do, With thy tuneless serenade...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...mirth. Happy insect, happy thou ! Dost neither age nor winter know; But, when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous...thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest." Cowley's Essays are among the most agreeable prose-compositions in our language, being equally recommended...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 pages
...insect, happy thou ! Dost neither age nor winter know ; But, when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and aung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous and...thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest." Cowley's Essays are among the most agreeable prose-compositions in our language, being equally recommended...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Dost neither age nor winter know ; But, when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Thy fill, the flow'ry 4 4 7 7374757 XI. THK KWALLOW. FOOLISH Prater, what dost thou So early at my window do, Wnk thy tuneless serenade...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 306 pages
...mirth. Happy insect, happy thou ! Dost neither age nor winter know; But, when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among (Voluptuous,...Epicurean animal!) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retirest to endless rest. XI. THE SWALLOW. FOOLISH prater, what dost thou So early at my window do,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Dost neither age nor winter know : But when thou 'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Thy fill, the flow'ry t; for now too nigh Th' Archangel stood, and from...fix'd station, all in bright array The cherubim d The SraHo,e. Foolish prater! what dost thou So early at my window do With thy tuneless serenade ? Well...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 2

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...Dost neither age nor winter know; But when thou'sl drunk, and danc'di and sung Thy fill, the fluwery leaves among (Voluptuous, and wise withal, Epicurean animal !) Sated with thy summer feut, Thou retir'at to endless rest. arts. THE coronation of Charles the second Emperor, called the...
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Collections from the Greek Anthology

Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pages
...mirth. Happy insect ! happy, thou Dost neither age nor winter know. But when thou 'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, — Voluptuous,...with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest. EPIGRAMS. I. (12.B.80.) ON THE TOMB OF TIMOCRITUS. M. TIMOCRITUS adorns this humble grave. Mars spares...
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