 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 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...fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shape they please.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 lehte
...Soft yielding minds to water glide a» ay, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude fect so rare ? Here matter new to gaze the Devil met...sight no obstacle found here, nor shade, But all sun- nir. "Know farther yet; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Svlph embrac'd : For, spirits,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 lehte
...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. NOTES. Ver. 47. As now your own, $c.] The Poet here... | |
 | 1847 - 540 lehte
...O'er some new-open'd grave, and (strange to tell,) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. BLAIR'S Grave. 6. For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 7. Matrons who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. CHURCHILL. 8. A horrid... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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...repair, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 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...fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.... | |
 | 1906 - 682 lehte
...assume, or both. And Pope in ' The Rape of the Lock ' make» lis Ariel say something similar : — For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. In Gazette's 'Diable Amoureux' Beelzebub is in the form of a woman ; and when Sivav and Vishnu visited... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 lehte
...deep. — Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them? Shakspere. For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. Pope. Take thou the poet's counsel to thy heart: Question thy spirit, make its wisdom thine — Shut... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 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 embrac'd : For spirits, freed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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...fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.... | |
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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... 
