 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 lehte
...elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to main. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, -And sport...guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, ami midnight masquerades, VARIATIONS. Shock .just had given himself the rouzing shakr, And nymphs preparM... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 lehte
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of air. Know further yet ; whoever, fair and chaste, Rejects... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 lehte
...host I blame. The same where the separation is made at the close of the first line of the couplet: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. The pause is tolerable even at the close of the couplet, for the reason just now suggested, that inverted... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 lehte
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shape they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 lehte
...host I blame. The same where the separation is made at th« dose of the first line of the couplet : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease, Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. The pause is tolerable even at the close of the couplet, for the reason just now suggested, that inverted... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 lehte
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude " I see all offers made by me how slight Thou valuest,...and nice, Or nothing more than still to contradict Wh.it guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 lehte
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and nutter in the fields of air. " Know farther yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 lehte
...eadem sequitur tellure repostos." Virg. ^Bneid. vi. P. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of Air. Know farther...ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting Maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 lehte
...eadem sequitur tellure repostos." Virg. /Eneid. vi. P. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of Air. Know farther...ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting Maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 lehte
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...And sport and flutter in the fields of air. ' Know further yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced: For spirits, freed... | |
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Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields... 
