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
| Louis Du Pont Syle - 1897 - 110 pages
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| 1899 - 816 pages
...embraced: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease 70 Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly...spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, ALEXANDER POPE 163 75 When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing... | |
| Edward Arber - 1899 - 354 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...midnight Masquerades, Safe from the treach'rous friend, and daring Spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm... | |
| Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 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...midnight Masquerades, Safe from the treach'rous friend, and daring Spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm... | |
| 1899 - 788 pages
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| Edward Arber - 1901 - 350 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...midnight Masquerades, Safe from the treach'rous friend, and daring Spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark, When kind occasion prompts their warm... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1902 - 90 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...? '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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 pages
...fields of air. ' Know further yet: whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced; For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume...spark, The glance by day, the whisper in the dark; due: When kind occasion prompts their warm desires, When music softens, and when dancing fires ? 'Tis... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1906 - 198 pages
...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...desires, 75 When music softens, and when dancing fires ? 'T is but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know, Tho' Honour is the word with Men below. •• Some... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 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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