| James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 страници
...Soft yielding nymphs to water glide away And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea; The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." And the contrivance by which Belinda is awakened is also perfectly in keeping with all the rest of... | |
| The North American Review.VOL.CXII. - 1871 - 506 страници
...Soft yielding nymphs to water glide away And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea; The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." And the contrivance by which Belinda is awakened is also perfectly in keeping with all the rest of... | |
| 1871 - 494 страници
...Soft yielding nymphs to water glide away And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea; The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still...repair And sport and flutter in the fields of air." And the contrivance by which Belinda is awakened is also perfectly in keeping with all the rest of... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1871 - 438 страници
...Soft, yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome In search of mischief still...roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, Ana sport and flutter in the fields of air." In the Comte de Gabalis, to which Pope refers, the four... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 страници
...of air.1 " Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embraced : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.' 10 What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtlv balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 страници
...Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still...fair and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some Sylph embraced : For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease ou Assume what sexes and what shapes they... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1872 - 340 страници
...Soft, yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome In search of mischief still...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air." In the Comte de GabaKs, to which Pope refers, the four classes of the elementary spirits are very minutely... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1872 - 340 страници
...Soft, yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome In search of mischief still...repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air." In the Comte de Gabalis, to which Pope refers, the four classes of the elementary spirits are very... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 страници
...Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nympbs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylpbs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of Air. Know farther yet : whoever fair... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 страници
...Grecian host I blame. The same when the separation is made at the close of the first line of the couplet: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease, Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. The pause is tolerable even at the close of the couplet, for the reason just now suggested, that inverted... | |
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