 | Epigrams, English - 1806
...rely, When all thy other parts deceive and lye ? 106 I ' CCXXIX. MODEST BEAUTY THE MOST BEWITCHING. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. * ccxxx. TO A YOUNG LADY EMBROIDERING. Arachne once, ill-fated maid, Daring Minerva to engage, Her... | |
 | Burlington (N.J.) - 1811
...the dawning of day, Regardless of foes—in the sun-shining hour He flew with the honey away. BEAUTY. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines more bright; Unaiming charms, with edge resistless fall, And she who meant no mischief does it all.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822
...nature, with true taste, like ours, Please, and are pleased, and wing the guiltless hours. MODESTY. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. TO A LADY. WHO SENT BACK THE TOP OF A SWEETBRIAR BRANCH, AND RETAINED... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822
...and wing the guiltless hours. MODESTY. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest case, in beauty, shines most bright: Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. TO A LADY. WHO SENT HACK TUP. TOP OF A SWIiETIIRIAK BRANCH, AND IIETAINI'.D... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823
...destroy'd, The just made perfect, and thy faithful ones Throned in beatitude for evermore ! BISHOP. MODESTY. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. A. BILL. TO THE HON. AND REV. F. CORNWALLIS. IN Frolic's hour, ere serious... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827
...destroy'd, The just made perfect, and thy faithful ones Throned in beatitude for evermore ! MODESTY. BISHOP. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. TO THE A. HILL. HON. AND REV. F. CORNWALLIS. IN Frolic's hour, ere serious... | |
 | James Ewell - Electronic books - 1827 - 814 pages
...that he had the honour of being offered up at tiie same altar with the immaculate Ctuirlolte Corday. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. HILL. • Plutarch observes, that as thistles, though noxious things... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827
...destroy'd, The just made perfect, and thy faithful ones Throned in beatitude for evermore ! BISHOP. MODESTY. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. A. 111!: TO THE HON. AND REV. F. CORNWALLIS. IN Frolic's hour, ere serious... | |
 | A general reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 188 pages
...is without partiality, and without hypocrisy. In whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning. JLR As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...bright; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And the who means no mischief does it all. 186 As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy... | |
 | Theology - 1828
...are inseparable — " Whose god is their belly," and " whose end is destruction." THE TWO COUSINS. !l As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines more bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fail, And she who means no mischief does it all."... | |
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As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. 
