 In this was every art and every charm, To win the wisest and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes."...  The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life - Page 167by Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 394 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Pierre Flourens - Blood - 1801 - 456 pages
...the zone, unbrac'd, With various skil1 and high embroid'ry grac'd, In this was ev'ry art, and ev iy charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, die gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving fire, Persuasive speech, gnd more persuasive sighs,... | |
 | Literature - 1805 - 420 pages
...hearts, " And music of resistless whisper'd sounds, " That from the wisest steal their best resolves."' " In this was every art, and every charm " To win the...gentle vow, the gay desire, " The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, " Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, " Silence, that spoke, ^nd eloquence... | |
 | Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...enchanting eye, the ruddy face, " Beauty unchaste, is beauty in disgrace ;" And yet in them is ev'ry art and charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond...love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, and st\W Tev'wvn^ fae, .Languor that fascinates, aY\ coto^x' v«vgc\Narras,, •} That tempts the sage,... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1807 - 338 pages
...from tlie cestus of Homer, which JUDO borrows of Venus* In this was every art, and every charm, To wiu the wisest and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle...the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still-reviving lire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Siieuce that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. Now... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...ILIAD. 313 Food love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that, spoke, and eloquence of eyes. This, on her hand the Cyprian Goddess laid ; Take this, and with it all thy wish, she said. With smiles... | |
 | Aristoteles - 1811 - 644 pages
...goddess skill'd in weaving wiles. And as Homer says, [speaking of her cestus,] . I » . • / •'':*. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm ; . • • . : • ii 1 Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, ', .•..-( The kind deceit, the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...the following descrip tion by Homer, thus translated by Mr. Pope : " In this was ev*ry art, and ev'ry charm, To win the wisest and the coldest warm : Fond...sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." Hind, b. xiv, v "• of a holy God. I will subdue the inflexible " virgin, and disturb, even in his... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 374 pages
...Jove ; And from her fragrant breast the zone unbrac'd, With various skill, and high embroidery grac'd. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the...sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. This on her hand the Cyprian goddess laid : ' Take this, and with it all thy wish ;' she said. With... | |
 | Frederick Sylvester North Douglas - Greece - 1813 - 222 pages
...~ov \\j,av\a, II. Lib. xiv. v. 214. The zone embraced, With various skill and high embroidery graced, In this was every art and every charm, , -. To win the wisest, and the coldest warm. it still possesses many characteristics of the ancient 'IIiMS. The very word cestus* is derived from... | |
 | Firdawsī - English poetry - 1814 - 316 pages
...214. She from her fragrant breast the Zone unbraced, With various «kill and high embroidery graced, In this was every art, and every charm, To win the...the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still surviving fire ; Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs } Silence that spoke and eloquence... | |
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