 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
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 Seiten
...WRITTEN ON A WHITE FAN BELONGING TO MISS OSBOBNE, AFTERWARDS HIS WIFE. (" Biographia Britannica.") Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...small force in love ; Yet she, with graceful air and mieu, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 524 Seiten
...flattery to the author,1 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 ; But she with such an air and mien, a Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so,... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 Seiten
...WRITTEN ON A WHITE FAN BELONGING TO MISS OSBOBNE, AFTERWARDS HIS WIFE. (" BiograpMa Britannica.") Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ : This fan in moaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; Yet she, with graceful air and mien, Not... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 Seiten
...shining on the shelf ; for Curio dresses nothing but himself. Written on the leaves of a Fun. Fr.AVlA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motion so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 Seiten
...WRITTEN ON A WHITE FAN BELONGING TO MISS OSSORNE, AFTERWARDS HIS WIFE. (" Biographia Britannica.") Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow j Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame. It has been thought thut Atterbury,... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 Seiten
...WRITTEN ON A WHITE FAN BELONGING TO MISS OSBOSNE, AFTERWARDS HIS WIFE. (" Biographia Britannioa.") Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art...told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, Gives coolness to the matchless dame, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow; It has been thought that... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 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 its wanton motion so That it wounds more than Cupid's bow, Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1876 - 536 Seiten
...flattery to the author,1 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 employ. This fan in meaner li:mda would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien, • Not to... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 Seiten
...adore all mankind. Jonathan Swift. +i DCCXXVII. WRITTEN ON A WHITE FAN BORROWED FROM A LADY. Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art...Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast — a flame. Francis Atterbury (1662-1732). [From Nichols' Select Collection of Poems (1782).... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 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 its wanton motion so That it wounds more than Cupid's bow, Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other... | |
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