Safe from the treach'rous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, 75 When music softens, and when dancing fires? Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho' Honour is... Bell's Edition - Page 79by John Bell - 1796Full view - About this book
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...embrac'd : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 'What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 308 lehte
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| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 lehte
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| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 lehte
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| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
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| British anthology - 1825 - 460 lehte
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| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 lehte
...The light coquettes in Sylphe aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. What guarde the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring epark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
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