 | 1825 - 626 Seiten
...personal beauty, which is so anxiously wished for, and ardently admired by all ranks of society. " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring: And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king."... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 Seiten
...wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 Seiten
...wise ! From Maryborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race. Begs for each birth the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ;. And Sedly curs'd the form that pleas'da king.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 Seiten
...Tour to the Hebrides, (p. 37, 4th edit.) we find some observations respecting the lines in question: " In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes there is the following passage : The teeming mother auxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane, etc. " Lord Hailes told... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 Seiten
...HEBRIDES, we find some observations, respecting the lines in question : " In Dr. Johnson's VANITY opHuMAN WISHES, there is the following passage : " The teeming...her race. Begs for each birth the fortune of a face; Yet Vane," Ac. " Lord Hailes told him, [Johnson,] he was mistaken in the instances he had given of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 Seiten
...some observations, respecting the lines in question : •• In Dr. Johnson's VANITY or HuMAxWisHi», fore ; Yet Vane," 4с. [1749, been long kept back for want of encouragement. But in this benevolent purpose... | |
 | Eton miscellany - 1827 - 532 Seiten
...the arms of a cook-maid. Dr. Johnson, in his spirited poem, " The Vanity of Human Wishes," says, " The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a ," not face (for every child is like its mother, and every mother handsome, in her own opinion ; the... | |
 | 1831 - 790 Seiten
...wise ! From Marlb'rough'seyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a dnv'ller and a show. *The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 Seiten
...wise? From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, Aud Swift expires a driv'ller and a show. The teeming mother, anxious for her race. Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedlcy curs'd the form that pleas'da king.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 Seiten
...printed, with additions by me, and given into the court of session. Lord Hailes knew Dr. Johnson's part not to be mine, and pointed out exactly where it began and where il ended. Dr. Johnson said " It is much now that his lordship can distinguish so." In Dr. Johnson's... | |
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The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king. 
