 | 1720 - 302 Seiten
...When mufic foftens, and when dancing fires?- • 'Tis but their Sylph, the wife celeftials know, Tho' honour is the word with men below. Some nymphs there are, too confcious of their face, For life predeftin'd to the Gnomes embrace. Thefe fweH their profpedts and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 240 Seiten
...eadcm fequitur tfllure rcboflo;. Virg. ^En. vi. P. "Tis but their Sylph, the wife Celeftials know, ThoJ Honour is the word with Men below. Some nymphs there are, too confcious of their face, For life predeftin'd to the Gnomes embrace. 80 Thefe fwell their profpe&s... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 Seiten
...fequitur tellurr i-tpo/los. Virg. .En. vi. P. 'Tis but their Sylph, the wife Celeftials know, Tho' Honour is the word with Men. below. Some nymphs there are, too confcious of their face, For life predeftin'd to the Gnomes embrace. 80 Thefe fwell their profpe&s... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 Seiten
...When muficfoftens, and when dancing fires ? 76 'Tis but their Sylph, the wife Celeftials know, Tho' Honour is the word with Men below. Some nymphs there are, too confcioui of their face, For life predeftin'd to the Gnomes embrace. 80 Thefe fwell their profpedls... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 Seiten
...75 When mufic foftens, and when dancing fires ? 'Tis but their Sylph, the wife Celeftials know, Tho' Honour is the word with Men below. Some nymphs there are, too confcious of their face, For life predeilin'd to the Gnome's embrace. 80 Thefe fwell their profpefts... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 Seiten
...would have been tempted t» expatiate upon it. 'Tis but their Sylph, the wife Celeftials know, Tho' Honour is the word with Men below. Some nymphs there are, too confcious of their face, For life predeftin'd to the Gnomes embrace. 80 Thefe fwell their profpe&s... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 314 Seiten
...defires,75 When mufic foftens, and when dancing fires ? Tis but their Sylph, the wife Celeftials know, Tho' Honour is the Word with Men below. Some nymphs there are, too confcious of their face, For life predeftin'd to the Gnomes embrace. 80 Thefe fwell their profpe&s... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 Seiten
...defires, When mufic foftens, and when dancing fires ? 'Tis but their Sylph, the wife Celeftials know, Tho' Honour is the word with Men below. Some nymphs there are, too confcious of their face, For life predeftin'd to the Gnomes embrace. Thefe fwell their profpefts and... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 Seiten
...When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, 75 When music softens, and when dancing fires ? 'Tis but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though...nymphs there are too conscious of their face, For life prcdestin'd to the gnomes' embrace. 80 These swell their prospects and exalt their p'-ide,. When ofiers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 406 Seiten
...defires, 75 When mufic foftens, and when dancing fires ? "Tis but their Sylph, the wife Ccleftials know, Though Honour is the word with Men below. Some nymphs there are, too confcious- of their face,. For life predeftjn'd to the Gnomes embrace. go Thefe fwell their profpefts... | |
| |
Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers, and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds, Your Grace salutes their ear. 
