 To pass our tedious hours away We throw a merry main, Or else at serious ombre play: But why should we in vain Each other's ruin thus pursue? We were undone when we left you — With a fa, la, la, la, la.  Poétique anglaise - Seite 286von Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1799 - 714 Seiten
...Each other's ruin thus pursue ? We were undone when we left you. But now our fears tempestuous grow, And cast our hopes away ; Whilst you, regardless of...play : Perhaps permit some happier man, To kiss your haiid, or flirt your fan. When any mournful tune you hear That dies in ev'ry note ; As if it sigh'd... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 512 Seiten
...other's ruin thus pursue ; We were undone when we left you. VIII. But now our fears tempestuous grow, And cast our hopes away ; Whilst you, regardless of...man To kiss your hand, or flirt your fan. With a Fa, &c. IX. When any mournful tune you hear, That dies in every note ; As if it sigh'd with each man's... | |
 | 1808 - 506 Seiten
...Each other's ruin thus pursue ? We were undone when we left you. But now our fears tempestuous grow, And cast our hopes away, Whilst you, regardless of...happier man To kiss your hand, or flirt your fan. When any mournful tune you hear, That dies in ev'ry note, As if it sigh'd with each man's care, For... | |
 | John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - 1810 - 508 Seiten
...ruin thus pursue ? We were undone when we left you. Whh a fa, &c. But now our fears tempestuous grow, And cast our hopes away ; Whilst you, regardless of...man To kiss your hand, or flirt your fan. With a fa, &c. . When any mournful tune you hear, That dies in ev'ry note ; As if it sigh'd with each man's care,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...pursue ? We were undone when we left you. With a fa, &c. Bat now our fiears tempestuous grow, Anfi cast our hopes away ; Whilst you, regardless of our...man To kiss your hand, or flirt your fan. With a fa, ic. When any mournful tune you hear, That dies in every note; As if it sigh'd with each man's care,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 414 Seiten
...fa, &c. But now our fears tempestuous grow, And cast our hopes away ; Whilst you, regardless of qur woe, Sit careless at a play : Perhaps permit some...kiss your hand, or flirt your fan. ? . With a fa,, &c. When any mournful tune you hear, That dies in ev'ry note ;, As if it sigh'd with each man's care,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...when we left you, With a fa, tec. But now our fears tempestuous grow. And casl our hopes away ; Whilsl you, regardless of our woe, Sit careless at a play...To kiss your hand, or flirt your fan, Wi'th a fa, 8fc. When any mournful tune yon hear, • That dies in ev'ry note ; As if it sigh'd with each man's... | |
 | 1837 - 604 Seiten
...flirt, has yet another signification, — namely, " to move with a quick pace," as, for instance, " Permit some happier man To kiss your hand, or flirt your fan.*" As far as the kissing of hands goes, that might pass upon a foreigner ; but every Englishman knows... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...ruin thus pursue ? We were undone when we left you. With a fa, &c. But now our fears tempestuous grow, ove! Gaudy as the opening dawn, Lies a long and level...the wandering eye ! Deep are his feet in Towy's floo &c. When any mournful tune yon hear, That dies in every note ; As if it sigh'd with each man's care,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...our fears tempestuous grow, And east our hopes away; Whilst you, regardless of our woe, Sit eareless &e. When any mournful tune you hear, That dies in every note ; As if it sigh'd with eaeh man's eare... | |
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