Sedley has that prevailing gentle art, That can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart : Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, Till the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams... The school of action; a comedy - Side 233av Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 696 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Alexander Pope - 1735 - 490 sider
...declining Virtue and Dejire. till the poor vanqui/h^d Maid diffolves away fn dreams all night, injighs and tears all day. This was an happy talent to a man of the Town, but I dare fay, without prefuming to make uncharitable conjectures on the author's prefent condition, he would... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 428 sider
...Virtue and Deßr e , У ill the poor vanquiflfd Maid dißbhes away In ¿reams all night , in fight and tears all day. This was an happy talent to a man of the town, but, I dare fay, without prefuming to make uncharitable conjedtures on the author's prefent condition, he would... | |
| 1753 - 382 sider
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| Stephen Jones - 1799 - 456 sider
...The loosest wiibea to the chastest heart*} u Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, i« Betwixt declining virtue and desire', *' 'Till the poor vanquished...In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day." But though possessed of pleasing talents, Sedley was a very dissolute charaeler. SEED (JEREMIAH) an... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 sider
...prevailing gentle art, That can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart : Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, Till the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day*. ( When Crastin had... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 sider
...such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, Til! the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day *. When Crastin had uttered these verses with a tenderness which at once spoke passion and respect,... | |
| 1803 - 472 sider
...prevailing gentle art, That can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart : Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, Till the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day'. 1 Lord Rochester's... | |
| 1803 - 376 sider
...prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ; Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, That the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams ail night, in sighs and tears all day. This... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1804 - 416 sider
...chasest heart; liaise such a conflict, kindle such a fire B-jtwecn declining virtue and desire, That the poor vanquished maid dissolves away. In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day. His His attempts were of the grossest natures and, previous to, and during those attempts, he endeavoured... | |
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