 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...wide, My Muse, resume the task that yet doth thee abide. XLIX. One great amusement of our household was, In a huge crystal magic globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all things that do pass Upon this ant-hill earth; where constantly Of idly-busy men the restless fry Run... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...wide, My Muse, resume the task that yet doth thee abide. XLIX. One great amusement of our household was, In a huge crystal magic globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all things that do pass Upon this ant-hill earth; where constantly Of idly-busy men the restless fry Run... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 236 pages
...wide, My muse ! resume the task that yet doth thee abide. XLIX. One great amusement of our household was In a huge crystal magic globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all things that do pass Upon this ant-hill earth ; where constantly Of idly -busy men the restless fry... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1807 - 692 pages
...Savage, Bedford Bury. THE DIRECTOR. No. 22. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 180?. One great amusement of our household was, In a huge crystal magic globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all things that do pass Upon this ant-hill earth. THOMSON'S Castle of Indolence, Stanz. xlix. IT was in... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...wandering wide. My muse, resume the task that yet doth thee abide. One great amusement of our household was, In a huge crystal magic globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all things that do pass Upon this ant-hill earth ; where constantly Of idly-busy men the restless fry Run... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...wide, My Muse, resume the task that yet doth thee abide. XLIX. One great amusement of our houshold was, In a huge crystal magic globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all things that do pass Upon this ant-hill earth; where constantly Of idly-busy men the restless fry Run... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...fondly wand'ring MyMuse.reaume the task that yet dotlithee abide. One great arrw »irnt of our household blessthosedays,preservemy friend, Preserve him social, cheerful, and se things that do pass Upon this ant-hill earth ; where constantly Of idly busy men the restless fry Run... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...wand'ring wide, My Muse, resume the task that yet doth thee abide. One great amusement of our household was, In a huge crystal magic globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all things that do pass Upon this ant-hill earth ; where constantly Of idly-busy men the restless fry Run... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...wandering wide my muse, resume the task that yet doth thee abide. One great amusement of our household was, in a huge crystal magic globe to spy, still as you turn it, all things that do pass upon this ant-hill earth ; where constantly of idly-busy men the restless... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...wide, My Muse, resume the task that yet doth thee abide. XLIX. One great amusement of our household was, In a huge crystal magic globe to spy, Still as you turn'd it, all things that do pass Upon this ant-hill «arth ; where constantly t)f idly-busy men the restless fry... | |
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Of idly-busy men the restless fry Run bustling to and fro with foolish haste, In search of pleasures vain that from them fly, Or which obtain'd the caitiffs dare not taste: When nothing is enjoy'd, can there be greater waste? 
