 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 Seiten
...O'er some new-open'd grave, and (strange to tell,) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. BLAIR'S Gract. For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. Port 29S GHOST -SUPERSTITION. Matrons who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 Seiten
...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...repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." And the contrivance by which Belinda is awakened is also perfectly in keeping with all the rest of... | |
 | 1871 - 494 Seiten
...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...repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." And the contrivance by which Belinda is awakened is also perfectly in keeping with all the rest of... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.CXII. - 1871 - 506 Seiten
...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...repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." And the contrivance by which Belinda is awakened is also perfectly in keeping with all the rest of... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1871 - 438 Seiten
...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, Ana sport and flutter in the fields of air." In the Comte de Gabalis, to which Pope refers, the four... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 Seiten
...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...yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease ou Assume what sexes and what... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1872 - 340 Seiten
...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...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air." In the Comte de Gabalis, to which Pope refers, the four classes of the elementary spirits are very... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1872 - 340 Seiten
...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...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air." In the Comte de GabaKs, to which Pope refers, the four classes of the elementary spirits are very minutely... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 Seiten
...Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylpbs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of Air. Know farther...yet : whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embrac'd; For Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 Seiten
...Grecian host I blame. The same when the separation is made at the close of the first line of the couplet: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease, Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. The pause is tolerable even at the close of the couplet, for the reason just now suggested, that inverted... | |
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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... 
