 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
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 pages
...embraced: 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...: For Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting Maids, In courtly...dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires? NOTES. Ver. 67. Know further yet ;] Marmontel has, on this... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...: For Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease, Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting, Maids, In courtly...dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires? NOTES. Ver. 67. Know further yet ;] Marmontel has, on this... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...embrac'd: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shape they please. ths daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...embraced : 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...embrac'd : For, spirits, freed from mortal laws, with e»* Assume what sexes and what shapes they p!tx>-- What guards the purity of melting maids In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring tfcfi The glance by day, the whisper in the dark. When kind occasion... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...Fettm. I find that our art hath not gained much by the happy revival of masquerading among us. Swift. What guards the purity of melting maids, In Courtly balls and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, and daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark ? J '.•/•••.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...the purity of melting maids, In courtly halls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous , and t / When music softens, and when dancing fires? 'Tis but their Sylph, the wise celestials know, Though... | |
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