Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds... Musa Proterva: Love-poems of the Restoration - Seite 117herausgegeben von - 1889 - 128 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1823 - 872 Seiten
...pretty thought, expressed with ease and conciseness, and closed in a beaut. ful manner. On a FAN. Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told or safelv seen, Directe its wanton motion so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow, Gives coolness to... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 Seiten
...employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs...Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame. When this coxcomb had done reading them, ' Heyday!' says he, 'what instrument is this... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 288 Seiten
...flattery to the author is, I think, as beautiful in its kind as any one in the English tongue : Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; Bat she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 862 Seiten
...rlattery to the author, is, I think, as beautiful in its kind as any one in the English tongue : Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small foree in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton... | |
| George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 Seiten
...a pretty thought, expressed with ease and conciseness, and is closed in a beautiful manner. Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, nor safely seen, Directs its wanton motion so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow, Gives coolness... | |
| Anacreon, John Broderick Roche - 1827 - 330 Seiten
...celebrated writer of our own country has expressed this truth in the following elegant lines : — f'lavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions BO, That it wounds more, than Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 Seiten
...employ : In other hands the fan would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen. Directs...Gives coolness to the matchless dame. To every other breast a flame. АШгичгу. The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they... | |
| 1829 - 804 Seiten
...the English tongue ! * Flavia the least and h: Mi • i toy Can with rcsistlras art employ. YMtfan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; Bat she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely KCD, Directs its wanton motions co,... | |
| Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 Seiten
...to the lady who afterwards became his wife- '• .'. -in-j' .' -./..ч . : /. >.;.. i. >j,t Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...meaner hands, would prove An engine of small force m lave ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to be told, or safely teen, Directs its wanton tnotiom... | |
| Joe Miller - 1836 - 266 Seiten
...the former two. Written in the leaves of a Fan. BY DR. ATTERBURY, A LATE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER. Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art...love ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not to he told or fairly seen, Directs its flowing motion so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow ; Gives... | |
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