 | 1806 - 274 Seiten
...rely, When all thy other parts deceive and lye ? 106 I ' CCXXIX. MODEST BEAUTY THE MOST BEWITCHING. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. * ccxxx. TO A YOUNG LADY EMBROIDERING. Arachne once, ill-fated maid, Daring Minerva to engage, Her... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 346 Seiten
...nature, with true taste, like ours, Please, and are pleased, and wing the guiltless hours. MODESTY. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. TO A LADY. WHO SENT BACK THE TOP OF A SWEETBRIAR BRANCH, AND RETAINED... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...destroy'd, The just made perfect, and thy faithful ones Throned in beatitude for evermore ! BISHOP. MODESTY. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. A. 111!: TO THE HON. AND REV. F. CORNWALLIS. IN Frolic's hour, ere serious... | |
 | James Ewell - 1827 - 868 Seiten
...that he had the honour of being offered up at tiie same altar with the immaculate Ctuirlolte Corday. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. HILL. • Plutarch observes, that as thistles, though noxious things... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 Seiten
...is without partiality, and without hypocrisy. In whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning. JLR As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...bright; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And the who means no mischief does it all. A. Hill. As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more... | |
 | 1828 - 704 Seiten
...are inseparable — " Whose god is their belly," and " whose end is destruction." THE TWO COUSINS. !l As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines more bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fail, And she who means no mischief does it all."... | |
 | 1828 - 682 Seiten
...inseparable — " Whose god is their belly," and " whose end is destruction." THE TWO COUSINS. -• AB lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines more bright; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all."... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...remember it is with human faculties as with liquors, the lightest will be ever at the -top. — Swift. CXL As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. A. Hill. CXIL Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off—... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...remember it is with human faculties as with liquors, the lightest will be ever at the top. — Swift: CXI. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. Jl. Bill CXII. cxm. After all, the most natural beauty in the world... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love ? . . Rowe. "\ ' As lamps buru silent, with unconscious light, So modest ease in...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. .1. ///'//. Bcllis. Innocence. Whose white investments figure innocence.... | |
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As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. 
