 ... Faint-hearted from the reckoning of our span Of mortal days, we pamper the fond wish For long duration in a line of kings : If the rich pageantry of thoughts must fade All unsubstantial as the regal hues Of eve which purpled them, our cunning frailty...  Tragedies - Page 53by Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1844 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1837 - 1322 pages
...make it look so glorious 1 Our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its brow In which our sunny fantasies may live Empearl'd, and gleam in fatal splendours far On after a«>i ." On after ages. Fhocion also, in presence of the king, boasts to have... | |
 | sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1835 - 232 pages
...Of eve which purpled them, our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its brow, In which our sunny fantasies may live Empearl'd, and gleam, in fatal splendor, far On after ages. We must look within For that which makes us slaves ; — on sympathies... | |
 | sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1835 - 252 pages
...our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its K'ow, In which our sunny fantasies may live Empearl'd, and gleam, in fatal splendor, far On after ages. We must look within For that which makes us slaves ;—on sympathies Which... | |
 | sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1836 - 140 pages
...Of eve which purpled them, our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its brow, In which our sunny fantasies may live Empearl'd, and gleam, in fatal splendor, far On after ages. We must look within For that which makes us slaves ;—on sympathies Which... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1836 - 590 pages
...Of eve which purpled them, our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its brow, In which our sunny fantasies may live EmpearFd, and gleam, in fatal splendor, far On after ages. We must look within Fur that which makes... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 604 pages
...Of eve which purpled them, our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its brow, In which our sunny fantasies may live EmpeaiTd, and gleam, in fatal splendour, far On after ages. We must look within For that which makes... | |
 | American literature - 1837 - 660 pages
...make it look so glorious 1 Our cunning frailtyMust robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its brow In which our sunny fantasies may live Empearl'd, and gleam in fatal splendours far On after ages." Phocion also, in presence of the king, boasts to have been tutored "... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...Of eve which purpled them, our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its brow, In which our sunny fantasies may live Empearl'd, and gleam, in fatal splendor, far For that which makes us slaves ; — on sympathies Which find no kindred objects in the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1841 - 778 pages
...imaginative author of Ion, one of the finest dramas of the age, has taught us what to guard against : ' We must look within, For that which makes us slaves ; on sympathies Which find no kindred object in the plain Of common life, — affections that aspire In air too thin, — and fancy's dewy... | |
 | John D. Post - Readers - 1842 - 314 pages
...Of eve which purpled them, our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreathe a diadem around its brow, In which our sunny fantasies may live Euipcarl'il, and gleam, in fatal splendor, far On after ages. We must look within For that which makes... | |
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