 | Bombay city, univ - 1880 - 754 Seiten
...:— (a) ' Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. (6) But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. (<•) A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There... | |
 | English poets - 1889 - 596 Seiten
...betray ; For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. * * * But when to mischief mortals bend their will. How...instruments of ill ! Just then Clarissa drew, with tempting gracc, A two-edged weapon from her shining case : So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...in Air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd Hair ! But when to Mischief Mortals bend their Will, 125 How soon they find fit Instruments of Ill ! Just then,...Knight, Present the Spear, and arm him for the Fight. 130 He takes the Gift with rev'rence, and extends The little Engine on his Fingers' Ends, This just... | |
 | Carlee Lippman - 1978 - 216 Seiten
...and "think about all your deductions" is worth remembering the next time you fill out a tax form. ) "But when to Mischief Mortals bend their Will, / How soon they find fit Instruments of lll," is no longer in the heyday of prescriptive statements. Oark shadows have fallen across the paths... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - 950 Seiten
...adapted or adaptable to the end in view, the use proposed, or the work to be done <food fit for a king) <but when to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find fit instruments of ill! — Pope) <never even in the most perfect days of my development as an artist could I have found words... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...Scylla's fate! Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air. She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...ill! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edged weapon from her shining case: So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...Scylla's fate! Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...ill? Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edged weapon from her shining case: So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear,... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 Seiten
...tone and length was the epigram, a rhyming couplet or quatrain such as this one by Alexander Pope: But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! But epigrams have very different qualities. An anonymous Latin epigram describes itself: Three things... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 Seiten
...Scylla's fate ! Changed to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injured hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How...ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edged weapon from her shining case: So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear,... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 Seiten
...160), and Clarissa's donation of the fateful scissors concludes as an epic simile for amatory combat: "So Ladies in Romance assist their Knight, / Present the Spear, and arm him for the Fight" (canto 3, lines 129-30, p. 175). However, the love that Ariel discovers in Belinda, a secretive and... | |
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Ah cease, rash youth ! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit... 
