 | Marmion Wilard Savage - 1852 - 300 pages
...twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That...so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, Than some more timely happy spirits eudu'th. Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still... | |
 | Marmion Wilme Savage - English fiction - 1852 - 468 pages
...:" "How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'tb. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 142 pages
...TWENTY-THREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my Ihree-and-iwentieth year I My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom showeth, Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near; And inward... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...character. " How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his whig my three-and-twentieth year f My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near, And inward... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year ! My hasting clays fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud...show'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, 5 That I to manhood am arriv'd so near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy... | |
 | Henry Taylor - Conduct of life - 1853 - 232 pages
...< How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen, on his wing, my three-and-twentieth year, My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I towards manhood am arrived so near, And... | |
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...TWENTTTHREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stoln on his \ving my three and twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arriv'd so near ; And inward... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...TWENTYTHREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. 1 Cowper has very elegantly translated these sonnets. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the... | |
 | Henry Taylor - Conduct of life - 1853 - 244 pages
...late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I towards manhood am arrived so near, And inward ripeness doth much less appear, Than some more timely happy spirits indueth.' Even in his twenty-ninth year he regarded his poetical... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arriv'd so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.... | |
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Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits indu'th. 
