 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylplfs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, .Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, 2he glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 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? 'Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho' Honour... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...embrac'd; For Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 In courtly balls and midnight masquerades, Safe from...? 'Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho' Honour is the word with Men below. Some nympbs there are too conscious of their face, For life... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease ou 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 - 1873 - 590 pages
...: For Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. ;o What guards the purity of melting Maids, In courtly...dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires? 'Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho' Honour... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...embrac'd : For, pints, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please high afore His body monstrous, horrible, and vast ; Which, to increase his wondrous greatness more treacherous friend, the daring spark The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 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...dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, ' When music softens, and when dancing fires ? 'Tis but then- Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho"... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 pages
...embrac'd; 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...? 'Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho' Honour is the word with Men below. Some nymphs there are too conscious of their face, For life... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...the purity of melting maid«. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance by day, the whisper...dark— | When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires? 'Tie but their sylph, the wise celestials know, Though... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 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... | |
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