| Edward Young - 1802 - 420 страници
...own. Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy\ We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes...angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lyes ; Tells her, while she surveys a face so fine, There's no satiety of charms -divine : Hence, if... | |
| 1803 - 468 страници
...and coy; We strive to grasp it with out utmost snill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still; It seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains; What is it but rank poison in your veins i As Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies; l'ounj.JL u Tells... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 страници
...quick-silver, is bright and coy : We strive to grasp it, with our utmost skill ; Still it duties MS, and it glitters still ; If seiz'd at last, compute...gains : What is it, but rank poison in your veins ? in order to be free from interruption, to an obscure place in the suburbs. His director hearing no... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 страници
...: Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quick-lihcr, is bright and coy: We strive to grasp it, with our utmost skill ; Still it eludes us, and it g litters still ; Tf seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains : What is it, but rank poison in your... | |
| Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 страници
...Bunyan's prose ; The learned war both wage with equal force', And the fifth morn concluded the divorce. As Flavia in her glass an angel spies , Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lyes ; " Froid , faim , tout doucement le petit mot expire. Marton l'attrape au vol , Marton sait à... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 страници
...We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill. Still it elndes us, and it glitters still : If seia'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it but rank poison in your veins t Aa Flavia in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ear pernicious lies ; Tells her, while... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 страници
...Pleasure, like quicksilver, 'ч bright, and coy ; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Stilt it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at...pernicious lies ; Tells her, while she surveys a face so fihc, There's no satiety of charms divine : .Hence, if her lover yawns, all chang'd appears Her temper,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 страници
...Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is hright, and coy ; \Ve strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, ' Still it eludes us, and it glitters still: If s«iz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, hut rank poison in your veins • As Flavia... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 страници
...Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like irattksilvtr, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : tf SGNE'd at last, compute your mighly gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins r As Flavia... | |
| Edward Young - 1811 - 294 страници
...Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy ; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes...in her glass an angel spies, Pride whispers in her ears pernicious lies , Tells her, while she surveys a face so fine, There's no satiety of charms divine... | |
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