 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 Seiten
...last, to follies, youth could scarce defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend : Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it...no more. As hags hold sabbaths, less for joy than spite, So these their merry miserable night; Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide j And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to reign it, when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night : 240 Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 Seiten
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced arts spite, So these their merry, miserable night ; 240 Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...defend, 235 It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night : 240 Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 Seiten
...defend, It grows their age's prudeoce to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night. Pope. Moral Essays. Epist. ii. 235. Make just reprisals,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 Seiten
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight hefore, Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry, miserable night. Make just reprisals, and with cringe and shrug 645 And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 Seiten
...defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced ? 'Tis a heldam, Seen with wit and heauty seldom. 'Tis a fear that starts at spite, So these their merry, miserable night ; 240 Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...defend, It grows their age'e prudence to pretend ; Ashamed to own they gave delight before, Reduced v g / . = ᳚ 9 ' C < [ r谦3 =^ rP 4 V spite, Si these their merry, miserable night : .Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, And... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...At last, to follies youth could scarce defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Asham'd to is a mere machine : That, telling others what's o'clock....knows not what herself has struck ; But leases to sta spite, So these their merry, miserable night ; Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, And... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...At last, to follies youth could scarce defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Aaham'd to ' 'o$ $q$ ' ' 'u$v$w$ spite, So these their merry, miserable night; Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, And... | |
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Still out of reach, yet never out of view ; Sure, if they catch, to spoil the toy at most, To covet flying, and regret when lost : At last to follies youth could scarce defend. 
